I'm grateful to this thread for the news that MVCIN lives on. When it disappeared on the 3090--talk about unexpected S0C1--I did a brief RIP and never looked for it again. MVCIN allowed you to reverse a string and use TRT to find stuff that would otherwise have required a backwards loop search. Very handy.
. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 6:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level? In <sn1pr0101mb1520a1ecdd98150f6c931ef3ce...@sn1pr0101mb1520.prod.exchangelabs.com>, on 12/01/2015 at 10:57 PM, J O Skip Robinson <jo.skip.robin...@sce.com> said: >MVCIN was indeed a useful instruction. I encountered it (IIRC) on a >4381. I assumed that, like typical new instructions, it would stick >around for the duration. I was later shocked to discover that it had >been abandoned on a siding somewhere along the railway to the future. >Probably still there somewhere in Nebraska with a smudged bar code. It's present in ECPS:VSE PoOps, XA PoOps, ESA/370 PoOps, ESA/390 PoOps and z PoOps; that looks like sticking around to me. I don't know what the story is on the 3090. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
