I am not a LOADXX guru but &SYSALVL looks like waaaaaaay too little
granularity. It seems to *stop* at ARCHLVL=2, "z Architecture." My OP was
looking to distinguish *among* recent models -- say z990 to z13.

The basic problem is the C compiler will optimize to give best performance
on, say, a z196 -- but the resulting code S0C1's on a z10. My boss wants
something more user-friendly than a S0C1.

Charles

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Subject: Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

I confess to not having slogged through this thread, but from the beginning
I've wondered why no one has suggested the static system symbol &SYSALVL.
System symbols can be queried from pretty much any environment. They're set
automatically at IPL. Maybe OP needs more detail...

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