IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 07/04/2006 
09:52:08 AM:

> Based branches aren't traced either. What you get are subroutine calls 
> made via BALR, BASR, BASSM, etc. Unfortunately, you also get mode 
> switches to/from 64-bit mode. (IMHO it was a poor design choice to not 
> separate the two.) You'd better have whopping big trace tables because, 
> with branch tracing enabled, RSM will "chew" up a significant portion of 

> it with all of their mode switching to/from 64-bit mode. A complete 
> 64-bit RSM implementation will eventually do away with that craziness.

  z/OS 1.8 RSM runs mainly in 64-bit addressing mode, so that should
reduce the mode switching.

  Mode and Branch trace enabling may get separated in the next release
after z/OS 1.8. 

Jim Mulder   z/OS System Test   IBM Corp.  Poughkeepsie,  NY

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