The issuer sees the same values in R2-R12 before and after the ATTACH.

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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of 
Tony Harminc [[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2022 5:14 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Registers at entry to subtask (from ATTACH)

On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 at 13:54, Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> The manual (MVS Programming: Assembler Services Reference, Volume 1
> (ABE-HSP)) states
>
> 2-12 Used as work registers by the system.
>
> but I am looking at some old functional code which seems to expect
> (several?)
> registers values at ATTACH time be passed as is to the subtask.
>

Isn't the  "Used as work registers by the system" talking about the
registers the issuer sees after the ATTACH, rather than what the ATTACHed
subtask sees?

Tony H.

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