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To assess the market and learn how to choose the right mainframe console solution for your organization, download this Free White Paper: http://search390.com/r/0,,23693,00.htm?track=NL-170&visara ___________________________________________________________________ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= HOW ABOUT SOME ASSEMBLER BASICS? | COBOL, PL/I and LE for S/390 We are a VSE shop using mostly COBOL and PL/I LE. We have a need to understand the basics of assembler programming. Is there a good book or Web site that provides a COBOL programmer with the information necessary to understand or read an assembly program? Or, even better, is there one that will eventually allow me to write assembly programs? >> For our COBOL expert's response to this question, CLICK: http://www.search390.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid10_cid568866_tax285603,00.html?track=NL-170 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= HOW TO TRANSPORT ASSEMBLER TEXT FILES TO LINUX | Linux on the mainframe How do you port assembler text files to the Linux platform for use in C- based applications? Then, how would you go about getting them built as executables? >> For our Linux expert's response to this question, CLICK: http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid10_cid557057_tax293308,00.html?track=NL-170 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= HOW ASSEMBLER WORKS WITH 64-BIT ADDRESSING | z/OS How will assembler work with 64-bit addressing. I'm guessing that we'll need to use doubleword registers. 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