Tom Marchant wrote:
Yuck!

ITYM
     TM    FLCEFACILITIESLISTBYTE2,FLCEEXTENDEDIMMEDIATE

Personally, I prefer to use the mixed case symbols from the PL/X expansions:

        TM    FlceFacilitiesListByte2,FlceExtendedImmediate

IT'S BEEN SO LONG SINCE ANY MAINFRAME ASSEMBLER REQUIRED UPPERCASE SYMBOLS, I DON'T KNOW WHY SO MANY PEOPLE (IBM INCLUDED) PERSIST IN USING THEM. THEY REALLY MAKE THINGS HARD TO READ. EVEN IBM'S CONVERSION TOOL, USED TO GENERATE BILINGUAL MAPPINGS FROM PL/X DECLARES, DOES THIS. IT'S REALLY UNFAIR TO BURDEN ASSEMBLER LANGUAGE PROGRAMMERS WITH THIS CONSTANT SHOUTING!

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Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800
Los Angeles, CA 90045
310-338-0400 x318
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