I believe eyecatchers are a mark of a professional developer. Just to
add a little more, control block eyecatchers should have the symbol of
the control block at the start, and optionally a length if it's
variable-length. CSECTs should have a header consisting of Name(CSECT),
and assembly date and time. Of course none of this is mandatory just
good programming practices in my opinion.
Additionally, I believe all non-program storage should be marked
non-executable (although there is currently no such support for cell
pools; I have submitted an IBM "Idea" for this some time ago). It would
be nice if IBM used this facility as well for their control blocks.
Tom Harper
Phoenix Software International
Programming 65 years.
On 6/27/2025 4:56 PM, Gord Tomlin wrote:
On 2025-06-27 15:50 PM, Rupert Reynolds wrote:
does anyone care to comment on whether
eyecatchers are any use these days
In a word: yes.
And they're better when they have an assembly time stamp.
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Regards, Gord Tomlin
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