I have just been looking around and noticed that most of the z/OS compilers have an ARCH(n) option to specify the level of instructions to generate. As best as I can tell, the number "n" means the same for all of the compilers. So, I was thinking it would be nice if HLASM would bow to "peer pressure" and adopt this parameter as well, in addition to the current OPTABLE. It might even be nice if this would somehow affect the IBM macros similar to the SYSSTATE ARCHLVL= . As an aside, I also wish that the ARCHLVL= numbers were the same as the ARCH(n) numbers. But I recognise that this is impossible at this late date. And I don't know which came first.
Oh well. Just idle conversation. -- Money is the root of all evil. Evil is the root of all money. With that in mind, money is made by the government ... Maranatha! <>< John McKown
