A wild guess is that what they mean is "IBM does not provide any HLL APIs."
Thus, they cannot use them "directly" -- someone would have to write a glue layer. Just a guess. The definition of HLL is "any language that does not have an API for hiperspaces." <g> Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 2:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Data/hiperspaces (was: ... 4G bar?) On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 18:35:37 +0100, Martin Packer wrote: >To pick up on one point, HBUFNI/D are for hiperspace buffers. > This piqued my curiosity. I investigated: z/OS 2.2.0 z/OS MVS Programming: Extended Addressability Guide An introduction to extended addressability Basic decision: data space or hiperspace Choosing VIO instead of a data space or a hiperspace ... HLL programs cannot use [data/]hiperspaces directly. How can it tell? Is there a flag in a control block indicating "HLL" the supervisor checks and bars use of data/hiperspaces? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
