Ah, fond memories! IEFBR14...
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> On Nov 19, 2018, at 19:00, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
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>> On 11/19/2018 03:11 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
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>> I believe the package internal to mvs / OS has the preface of IND for the
>> modules. Similar to IFBR14 is part of t
On 11/19/2018 03:11 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
I believe the package internal to mvs / OS has the preface
of IND for the modules. Similar to IFBR14 is part of the
IFB suite of programs.
Shouldn't that be IEFBR14?
Jon
On 11/19/2018 5:27 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 2:24 PM Sean Conner via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
I've always been amused by IEFBR14 ever since I heard about it. I first
came across it by this quote:
Every program has at least one bug and can b
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 2:24 PM Sean Conner via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> I've always been amused by IEFBR14 ever since I heard about it. I first
> came across it by this quote:
> Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least
> one instruction-
> IFBR14 if you all are not familiar with MVS / MVT batch programming
> is a program which immediately terminates w/o any return codes by
> doing an assembly language return to the caller of the job step via
> the contents of R14 of the processor, which is also the return
> address.
Actually,
It was thus said that the Great jim stephens via cctalk once stated:
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> IFBR14 if you all are not familiar with MVS / MVT batch programming is a
> program which immediately terminates w/o any return codes by doing an
> assembly language return to the caller of the job step via the contents
> o
On 11/19/2018 7:49 AM, Jim Brain via cctalk wrote:
I know it's a minor nit, but as someone who has used IND$FILE on
OS/390 (zOS), I always wondered why it was called IND$FILE. Wikipedia
has just a stub:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IND$FILE
FILE I tend to understand, but I was never
I know it's a minor nit, but as someone who has used IND$FILE on OS/390
(zOS), I always wondered why it was called IND$FILE. Wikipedia has just
a stub:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IND$FILE
FILE I tend to understand, but I was never very knowledgeable of MVS, so
I'm not sure where
