Agree. I have not checked, but will bat this is really a full word integer
binary number.
On Dec 8, 2013 11:43 AM, "Charles Mills" <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is a pet peeve of mine. People use "hex" sloppily to mean "binary"
> (what I think IBM means in your example) or "non-printable" ("does it look
> like a DD name?" "Nyah, it's a bunch of hex.").
>
> Hex is not a kind of data. It is a convenient way of representing data.
> X'F1' is a clearer image in most cases than 11110001 or 241. All data is
> potentially hex; that is, is representable in hex. That's the beauty of hex.
>
> Charles
>
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> Subject: "hexadecimal"?
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> From:
>
> Title: z/OS V1R13.0 DFSMSdfp Advanced Services
> Document Number: SC26-7400-14
>
> ... that I was reading lately:
>
> 7.5.3.1 TRKCALC--Standard Form
> ...
> DD=addr--RX-type address, (2-12), (0), (14), or n
> You can specify either the address of a field containing the
> hexadecimal value of the record's data length, ...
>
> Hexadecimal!? Does this mean the value must be coded as hexadecimal
> display, e.g. C'50' to indicate 80? Or must it be coded as a hexadecimal
> self-defining term (X'50')? Why not a decimal self-defining term (80)?
> Or a binary self-defining term (B'01010000')? Or even an A()-constant
> (AL2(100-20))?
>
> Is "hexadecimal" otiose? Is it time for an RCF?
>
> (I've seen other uses of "hexadecimal" that I find otiose in MVS
> documentation. I suspect a tech writer's mother was traumatized during
> gestation by hexadecimal notation.)
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