On 2020-10-24, at 13:48:42, Charles Mills wrote: > > There's another macro exercise. Given MYBLKHDR,'EYECATCH' to generate MVI > MYBLKHDR,C'E'/MVC MYBLKHDR+1(L'MYBLKHDR-1),=C'YECATCH' > > An immediate instructions also "solves" my eyecatcher compare query, > lamenting the lack of "CLCIN." > Yes.
> CLI for the first character followed by a CLC for the remainder would have > the advantage that probably more than 9 times out of 10 the CLI would be > sufficient. > I had imagined that the OP planned to search not with a program but intereactively in a browser. How likely are false positives? Are there any characters to avoid perhaps because they might be likely in Packed decimal values. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Scott > Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2020 8:13 AM > ... > The use of MVCIN to set a data area eyecatcher is incredibly > inefficient. > But is the code path heavily traveled? -- gil
