And, &SYSALVL, could only give you information about the machine that you
were assembling on, not the one that you were running on.

Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com

On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
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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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