>Sad. I try to keep things as vanilla as possible and only resort to >exits when I have to. In this case I felt justified and it was only >two instructions. Even a system programmer trainee with no ASM >experience can support something that simple.
Guess why just about every line of code in my Assembler programs is heavily commented (to the point of being ridiculously detailed.) Despite that, my colleagues never touch my exits (even if they know what to do), they wait for me to return. > So managements solution to lack of assembler knowledge isn't to train > new people, instead they will restrict usage of the language In our installation, not quite. If I can justify the exit (and document it better than what I found in terms of doc when I came here) I am allowed to wite new ones. In the case of the ISF profile, it did not seem worth the effort. It was a one hour work to change them and a few phone calls. >I don't mean wizard level, but at least to know the difference between a >Load Address and a Load instruction. Ouch. Theoretically I know the difference, but when it comes to coding, I confuse LA x,address and L x,address at least once per program, especially if the storage location contains the address of an address to a storage area. :-) Luckily I know how to debug (and I think that that is the bigger problem with Assembler exits - many sysprogs don't have a clue how to go about testing/debugging a changed one, much less a freshly written if it doesn't do at once what you expect it to.) Best regards, Barbara -- Lust, ein paar Euro nebenbei zu verdienen? Ohne Kosten, ohne Risiko! Satte Provisionen für GMX Partner: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/partner ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
