On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:28:24 -0500 Jon Perryman <[email protected]> wrote:
:>On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 22:11:01 -0400, Mike Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: :>>Patch areas are a valid use case. All z/OS commercial software I have seen :>>or worked on has a patch area structured similar to this: :>>PATCH DC 48S(*) :>While patch area is a great use case, it's not a valid use case because S-CON value is not being processed. It's great that the patch area is validated for addressability but we simply create a zap using the generated value. There is no processing of the s-con by any program and could be any random generated value. Was quite useful in the days where (1) the weren't baseless instructions and (2) zaps where provided. One did not have to calculate to figure out the branch to the patch area. -- Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
