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----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of J O Skip Robinson > Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 11:44 AM > To: [email protected] > 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... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
