It would be a waste of time to submit such an RFE. GETMAIN will not be changed to manage addresses above 2GB.
Extended common will not be moved. The interface to allocate the storage in the 2GB to 4GB-1 address range is already available - IARV64 GETSTOR with USE2GTO32G=YES Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > The request was for suggested wording for an RFE for AMODE 64 to change > data addresses 2GB to 4GB-1 so AMODE 64 could use GETMAIN to get > memory there. To insure that only AMODE 64 programs that wanted the > memory, the AMODE 64 program would specify something like > GETMAIN LOC=32 in the source of the AMODE 64 program. > > The RFE would double the addressable memory with an address > storable in four bytes for data for an AMODE 64 program. > That is an incredible enhancement allowed for AMODE 64 programs. > If people wish to convert old programs from their existing AMODE to > a different AMODE, that is fine. If they want to use the AMODE 64 > enhancement that the RFE would request, then their program would > need to be AMODE 64 or converted to AMODE 64. > > Posts about BAL, BALR, crap bytes, AMODE 24, AMODE 31, AMODE 32, > S/370-24bit, S/370-31bit, S/360-32bit, MVS 3.8j, PDOS, MVS/XA, > ESA/370, and other totally off a tangent responses do not help > address the RFE wording question. > > Please help shorten this thread by helping with the wording needed to > request an AMODE 64 enhancement for AMODE 64 programs that > would double the 4-byte addressable for data. > Moving extended common would be icing on the cake. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
