No. I remember shops that had one or more such SVCs, but they weren't part of the MVS code base.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> on behalf of Robert Netzlof <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2020 1:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Case Study: IBM SYSTEM/360-370 ARCHITECTURE (1987) But do remember that in Ye Gude Auld Days, there was a widely known "magic" SVC which granted authorization to the user. On 8/8/20, Doug Wegscheid <[email protected]> wrote: > Site-specific SVC to do so? > > On Saturday, August 8, 2020, 12:11:14 PM EDT, <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Interesting are the two paragraphs on page 302, bottom RHS. > > Case says that nobody used the ASCII capability of the S/360. > > Padegs says that "none of our operating systems were [sic] programmed > to turn in the [ASCII] bit". > > So, no-one was able to use the ASCII facility. > > On 2020-08-08 12:19, Jim Mulder wrote: >> https://secure-web.cisco.com/1aUqvwFSpDRbVn1aNs20guYdvXOPJuuZo5gtacL9Gf9EkZxszA21zIT61i9R8WB_j6gx90NmLvIxo3RSZADv4WZ3_gAGC2hsKqPLrZVSMAnqd1ULXDJ_N1Q0jTv6Py9O8j81_ZaN9_2QMJidYBlRdBbVmWK5O8Ok5dZvJE5VcdhWpmPgsG4lqNkpIOeeau3Hj_Mz29Pj3HE1LN_9KhlrMZlmK2tJGa8Bdh6ca81ZFRgj0foFG9Z5oBRb45u3ITmHFU4F9AbzKRB5tZWb294HsZdywlGOGfo70KzhWg_JKhm7kFz1_2z8NdtTe_kHlsEBKgmbTqz059j1ekDC0Mf-UZ-o2FEaXuQN7gmYaMBSZymqfxf0dAjCFAJVJlxDllnLswiB3PZCp11aX82cgk2xB5NYqTQwKnwiw_pzVyi9po6OCPHbc5BlgAaKecpPV0izK/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.tufts.edu%2Fcomp%2F150FP%2Farchive%2Falfred-spector%2Fspector87ibm.pdf >> >> >> Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. >> Poughkeepsie NY > > -- Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob
