Bill,
I thought you could chain ccws

Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
from my IPAD

'Infinite wisdom through infinite means'


> On Dec 9, 2013, at 10:42 AM, DASDBILL2 <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Channel programs have always been able to transfer anywhere from zero to 
> 65,535 bytes per CCW.  Most access methods do not support any CCW byte count 
> greater than approximately 32K. 
> To render my first sentence more up-to-date, I should say channel programs 
> running in command mode have always been able... etc. (since transfer mode 
> channel programs have no CCWs in them). 
>   
> Bill Fairchild 
> Franklin, TN 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> From: "Paul Gilmartin" <[email protected]> 
> To: [email protected] 
> Sent: Sunday, December 8, 2013 8:25:50 PM 
> Subject: Re: "hexadecimal"? 
> 
>> On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 20:01:20 -0600, Joel C. Ewing wrote: 
>> 
>> If the real requirement is that the parameter address must point to a 
>> location containing what the PoOp describes as a half-word binary value, 
>> then the manual should state precisely that. 
>> 
> Thanks for bringing this thread back to my original concern when I 
> started it (I never imagined! ...), however interesting the digressions 
> to HFP and ternary logic may be, and for stating that concern more 
> clearly than I did. 
> 
> There should also be mention of the allowable range of values: 
> 0<n<=32760?  0<n<=BLKSIZE?  0<n<track-size?  0<n<=65535? 
> (The last is the maximum supported by channel programs, or was.) 
> Are unsigned halfwords supported?  This became an issue about the 
> advent of the 3380. 
> 
> Clearly the present text of the manual engenders confusion and 
> dissent. 
> 
> -- gil 
> 
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