Thanks John, haven't seen that ow before ... Scott ford www.identityforge.com
Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Oct 6, 2012, at 2:12 PM, "John P. Baker" <[email protected]> wrote: > Scott, > > BIF = "Built-in Function" > > John P. Baker > President > NGSSA, LLC > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Scott Ford > Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 2:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Is there a correspondence between 64-bit IBM mainframes and > PoOps editions levels? > > Ok John, I will bite what's a BIF ? > > Scott ford > www.identityforge.com > > Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll > understand. - Chinese Proverb > > > On Oct 6, 2012, at 8:49 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Randy Hudson wrote: >> >> <begin extract> >> I don't believe MVCIN was available on the 360/50; we used the TR >> instruction to reverse fields, or otherwise re-arrange them. >> <end extract> >> >> and he at once quite correct and utterly wrong. As usual, it depends >> upon what "was available" is thought to mean. >> >> There is and has "always" been a list of non-standard mainframe >> instructions that IBM can make available for a [small] fee. Some >> shops use one or more of them, and others are unaware of them. >> >> MVCIN is an instruction that shops that do text processing in a >> semitic language (or in Farsi, which, while Indo-european, is also >> written from right to left in an almost but not quite standard version >> of the Arabic alphabet) had an early felt need for. IBM met that >> need, and MVCIN was available early in the Middle East, certainly by >> 1971 when I first encountered it there. >> >> It was, for example, installed on the mainframes of the National >> Iranian Oil Company (Naft Melli) in Tehran and Abadan in the early >> 1970s; and I remember writing and installing a BIF that made it >> available in PL/I there. >> >> John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send >> email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
