On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:17:31 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: >I did not find Kevin Kelley's post entirely persuasive. This >restriction long antedates 2 Kibyte pages, and the equation 8 x 2048 = >32768 is thus historically irrelevant. > The restriction to 32760 is new with z/OS 2.1. Formerly it was 100. I didn't feel the handful of bytes difference was onerous; I was merely curious about the derivation of the number. I find Kevin's rationale more persuasive than you.
>Does the two-fullword---not doubleword?---prefix have the structure >|?|?|?|?|?||?|?|c|c|, in which |c|c| is the length L >= 0 in bytes of >the PARM value? > A later followup said so. And this nicely accommodated s/360 specifications so long as the prefix was fullword aligned. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
