--------- begin snippet (from Steve Smith) That's the old-fashioned way. This is the new way:
ORG *,16 --------- end snippet The assembler still cares about SECTALGN. The "old fashioned way" works fine, independent of SECTALGN. Also, note that I explicitly stated mapping quad word aligned storage areas, which, as you and others have noted, can be easily obtained using STORAGE OBTAIN,STARTBDY=4 (and other methods, such as the various Cell Pool services). With respect to ensuring "the alignment matches", it pretty much is always important (I'm sure that you could come up with some use case where you intentionally want a mismatch of the alignment).