Your ignorance is showing. The issues with CMS UPDATE prior to XEDIT are the same as the issues with source update in SMP, while there is sound emprical evendence that he was playing buzz word bingo and hasn't a clue what BAL is.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Gary Weinhold [weinh...@dkl.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 11:29 AM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS HLASM: EQU for statement labels Pot, kettle On 2020-06-03 11:18 a.m., Seymour J Metz wrote: >> O my. Are you subscribing to some arcane definition of Basic Assembler >> Language that requires hand-punching cards on a Jacquard loom or something? > No. RYFM. > >> I'd suggest that it appears you've never actually supported code using CMS >> UPDATE, > ROTF,LMAO! I'd suggest that you haven't a clue about what anybody else's > experience is. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > Gary Weinhold Senior Application Architect DATAKINETICS | Data Performance & Optimization Phone:+1.613.523.5500 x216 Email: weinh...@dkl.com Visit us online at http://secure-web.cisco.com/1A8TgC48H0L61Vdl0kgjFnfKlEt7a7zfXjlFJNWTobz1b7_RGwowTKIgpHEhS78YlXwwAL0m4Z3DrNMlemWm3GQ7rqWzSkM1dW1jh0BP9OqUpS4Dqfh6vHZgEcvvYJV7XAllpPkpIb8BbVpEGmBbfetFjpkJL-OC-SLQIMYsYdZx78nqBoZ4fAIl-MwUNPOPeHYARtACiBJXVFk4-j80jjCzRS6KxaA-vzg0F_VZ8BAX6nPwW5AFK6lV_HOyqYYq7TgG-oWkVLiM-Ua-XXJOi-BWfjk8b_VdnBtbQY8GSwaE5zHSMHzHpCKTXPFg6_N-ieuq54kCmLMziL5Fkk8iWM6xK7jCUXCjH8UjbOJclw2jnGp3qPjslLVqdDWLlGjGlkzvRxQgx8aLrMV8vWwy0DDR7GEdPTUL-wYQQFpFiOIAFNOO2_UB3nK-7W8Ncmh2eXbPzWIW9LPQyZf7PxoPpFw/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.DKL.com E-mail Notification: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be subject to copyright or other intellectual property protection. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to use or disclose this information, and we request that you notify us by reply mail or telephone and delete the original message from your mail system. ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on > behalf of Phil Smith III [li...@akphs.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 11:07 AM > To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Subject: Re: z/OS HLASM: EQU for statement labels > > Metz scrawled: >>> (not writing much BAL any more). >> I doubt that you ever were, or that you've even seen it. > O my. Are you subscribing to some arcane definition of Basic Assembler > Language that requires hand-punching cards on a Jacquard loom or something? > Give me a break. > >>> I was taught not to put labels on instructions for the same reason, though >>> it was because we were using CMS UPDATE at the time, >> Non sequitor. There's nothing in UPDATE that interferes with using labels on >> instructions. BTDT,GTTS (no scars, just the tee shirt) > That's "sequitur", if we're being pedantic. > > Of course there's nothing that *interferes* with it. It's just that hygiene > means you change as little as possible, so the same issue applies as with > physical cards: if there's an instruction on a label and you need to add > something between the label and that instruction, you have to change more. > This was particularly true when hand-crafting UPDATE decks, and thus became > less of an issue once XEDIT and UPDATE mode came along, but good hygiene > continued. > > If we're going to continue the theme of being rude, I'd suggest that it > appears you've never actually supported code using CMS UPDATE, or you'd know > this. Or maybe you were just poorly taught.
