Barry Merrill wrote:

>To my surprise even in 2014 the TSO TEST command does not support 64-bit 
>debugging!
>For example, there is no way to display the contents of a 64 bit register.  
>TSO TEST only shows the rightmost 32 bits.

Interesting. On what z/OS and TSO version(s) did you made that nasty discovery? 
Or what did you tried to test out which caused this discovery?

>Tactically, in the short term there are ways around this by storing the 64 bit 
>registers into memory for viewing or forcing dumps.

Agreed, but that is 'clumsy/messy/dirty'. 


>Did IBM really drop the ball on this by stabilizing the TSO commands at what 
>is becoming an increasingly ancient level (non-64-bit)?  Or have we missed 
>something?

AFAIK, many things in TSO are stabilized. [1] Perhaps there is another version 
of TSO TEST with the same or similar name? In this OCO days, you can't even 
re-assemble your things...

Now I have 64 nasty things instead of 32 things to say to that TSO TEST 
developers. :-D

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

[1] - which caused us to drop [slow] TRANSMIT / RECEIVE in favour of [faster] 
TCP/IP FTP. We know there is some sort of checkpointing in FTP, but we really 
miss the checkpointing feature of TSO TRANSMIT and that JES2 is kindly holding 
the data until everything is sent over.

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