Re: assembler help!

2011-08-10 Thread Lloyd Fuller
And the basis for many of the SHARE requirements that generated HLASM. :-) So many thanks to Greg. Lloyd - Original Message From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Sun, August 7, 2011 1:20:01 AM Subject: Re: assembler help

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4e3c500c.20...@ync.net, on 08/05/2011 at 03:18 PM, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net said: Are you thinking perhaps of PL/C, the WATFIV-like PL/1 processor from Cornell U. ?? No; that's not in the PL/S family, and not from IBM. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 6387394077152448.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu, on 08/05/2011 at 05:44 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Or, was that the SLAC Mods, the predecessor of Assembler H? No, the SLAC mods were modifications of Assembler H. Thanks, Greg. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 14a2a.54bd6587.3b6d8...@aol.com, on 08/05/2011 at 02:24 PM, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com said: What was the RAND fiasco at SHARE in SFO? They were giving out PL/S tapes with the IBM doco. I almost made it back to the data center before my beeper went off...BRING IT BACK NOW! That PL/S

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-07 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help! In 14a2a.54bd6587.3b6d8...@aol.com, on 08/05/2011 at 02:24 PM, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com said: What was the RAND fiasco at SHARE in SFO? They were giving out PL/S tapes with the IBM doco. I almost made it back to the data center before

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-07 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
peter.far...@broadridge.com (Farley, Peter x23353) writes: ITYM RL/S (Rand Language for Systems). I was at the SHARE in NY that year and managed to score a copy of the RL/S manual, but I never had my hands on a tape. Still have the manual around here somewhere though. If I remember the

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 02dc01cc53ae$1b98b7b0$52ca2710$@us, on 08/05/2011 at 03:27 PM, Jim Thomas j...@thethomasresidence.us said: Actually ... 'third_operand' is not really defined as an operand more so as 'M3' ... mask. The mask *is* an operand. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread McKown, John
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Rowe Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 4:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help! I can't help you with that question, since I don't use C myself. I just thought it was interesting that you keep complaining about not having a C

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread McKown, John
Of john gilmore Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 5:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: assembler help! It is clear from this and other examples we have seen here that 1) the assembly-language sklls of most installation sysprogs under 50 are rudimentary 2) IBM's maintenance of the HLASM

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Crabtree, Anne D
Charleston, WV 25305 (304)558-5914 ext 58292 (304)558-1441 fax -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 6:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jim Thomas [ snip ] By the way ... if anyone of us had to have brain or heart surgery .. would we want one that learnt how to perform surgery with JAVA simulations ??. By that, I mean this as a reference to

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, Aug 5th, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Chase, John wrote: Thus was the Concorde left without competition, and restricted to supersonic flight only over the open ocean (whose inhabitants, apparently, are immune to cancer and/or sonic booms). Not quite. It also flew flat out over outback Australia.

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Chase, John wrote: Allegedly, a prime consideration for Boeing's scuttling of its Supersonic Transport (SST) project back in the 1960s was a conclusion by some pseudo-scientists that sonic booms cause cancer. Hehehehe... LMAO... these 'pseudo-scientists' must be bored or spooked... :-D Sonic

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Bill Fairchild
@bama.ua.edu Subject: assembler help! It is clear from this and other examples we have seen here that 1) the assembly-language sklls of most installation sysprogs under 50 are rudimentary 2) IBM's maintenance of the HLASM interfaces to system services has low priority and is deteriorating, chiefly

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 8/4/2011 3:14 PM, john gilmore wrote: It is clear from this and other examples we have seen here that 1) the assembly-language sklls of most installation sysprogs under 50 are rudimentary 2) IBM's maintenance of the HLASM interfaces to system services has low priority and is deteriorating,

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Crabtree, Anne D
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 6:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help! --snip-- I realize I'm not asking the smartest questions... PARMJOBC is an address and at that address is the value 0008 (I think

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4e3bff54.3050...@phoenixsoftware.com, on 08/05/2011 at 07:33 AM, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com said: IBM did actually release PL/X (or maybe it was called PL/370 back then?) No: BSL PL/S (two versions) PL/8 PL/AS PL/X There was a PL/360, but that was a crude assembler

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In f255efe0ecf08c4a9c1db6aff423541715fbf...@ch2wpmail1.na.ds.ussco.com, on 08/05/2011 at 07:46 AM, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com said: Allegedly, a prime consideration for Boeing's scuttling of its Supersonic Transport (SST) project back in the 1960s was a conclusion by some pseudo-scientists

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
rom: Veilleux, Jon L Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 11:38 AM To: 'IBM Mainframe Discussion List' Subject: RE: assembler help! There are some free online tutorials if you have the time to work with them. Just as an example there is http://www.mainframecoder.com/ You can also try signing up

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Lloyd Fuller
the sonic booms, but the actual reason was the money. Lloyd - Original Message From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Fri, August 5, 2011 11:28:46 AM Subject: Re: assembler help! In f255efe0ecf08c4a9c1db6aff423541715fbf...@ch2wpmail1

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Jim Thomas
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Crabtree, Anne D Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 7:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help! What is your email address Rick? Another person has looked at my code and is being very helpful, but I still don't get what I want when I run

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Ed Finnell
What was the RAND fiasco at SHARE in SFO? They were giving out PL/S tapes with the IBM doco. I almost made it back to the data center before my beeper went off...BRING IT BACK NOW! In a message dated 8/5/2011 9:34:30 A.M. Central Daylight Time, edja...@phoenixsoftware.com writes: METAL

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Ed Gould
Ed, I remember the location being anehiem (but I could be wrong or it could be another group). Since then I never went to another conference with a tape. I believe they were going to ship the tape back to me. I was always upset that I never got the data on the tape. Ed

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 13:24:50 -0500, Jim Thomas wrote: please note that the mask value for an ICM represent the locations of the receiving register. If the sending address is x'0008', then ICM is going to look at address x'' thru x'0002'. ITYM locations x'08' through x'0A'. --

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Lloyd Fuller
: assembler help! On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 13:24:50 -0500, Jim Thomas wrote: please note that the mask value for an ICM represent the locations of the receiving register. If the sending address is x'0008', then ICM is going to look at address x'' thru x'0002'. ITYM locations x'08' through x'0A

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 12:38:37 -0700, Lloyd Fuller leful...@sbcglobal.net wrote: No. Are you saying No to what I wtore or to what Jim wrote? ICM ..,7,.. is going to load from the leftmost 24 bits of operand 3 ITYM operand 2. Operand 3 is the mask. Yes, I know it is confusing because it is

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Chase, John
In the example cited below, operand 3 starts at location 0008. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lloyd Fuller Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 2:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Jim Thomas
Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 2:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help! On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 13:24:50 -0500, Jim Thomas wrote: please note that the mask value for an ICM represent the locations of the receiving

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip--- IBM did actually release PL/X (or maybe it was called PL/370 back then?) No: BSL PL/S (two versions) PL/8 PL/AS PL/X There was a PL/360, but that was a crude assembler with sort-of-kind-of Algol syntax and not from IBM.

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip--- Anne / Rick, If you guys have this resolved, great .. else shoot me an email offline with the definition of PARMJOBC. Further, please note that the mask value for an ICM represent the locations of the receiving register.

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Bob Shannon
IBM did actually release PL/X (or maybe it was called PL/370 back then?) Are you thinking perhaps of PL/C, the WATFIV-like PL/1 processor from Cornell U. ?? IBM made PL/X available to ISVs in the mid-1990s. After about 18 months it was withdrawn. Bob Shannon Rocket Software

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Jim Thomas
) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 3:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help! In the example cited below, operand 3 starts at location 0008. -Original

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Tom Marchant
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 2:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help! On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 13:24:50 -0500, Jim Thomas wrote: please note that the mask value for an ICM represent

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Jim Thomas
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 3:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help! ---snip--- IBM did actually release PL/X (or maybe it was called PL/370 back then?) No: BSL PL/S (two versions) PL/8 PL/AS PL/X

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 15:29:27 -0500, Jim Thomas wrote: Right you are IIRC, Stanford .. Or, was that the SLAC Mods, the predecessor of Assembler H? Kind Regards -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent:

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-05 Thread Jim Thomas
Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 5:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help! On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 15:29:27 -0500, Jim Thomas wrote: Right you are IIRC, Stanford .. Or, was that the SLAC Mods

assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Crabtree, Anne D
In our IEFACTRT (accounting exit), an assembler program, it has the following commands: L R2,PARMJOBC ICM R1,7,0(R2) If PARMJOBC contains a binary integer length of 4 with 00 00 00 08, what ends up in all bits of R1? I am trying to add additional values to what is in R1 by doing: MVC

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Staller, Allan
Unpredictable! Check the high order byte of R1! ICM R1,7,0(r2) replaces the low order 3 bytes (and seems to be referencing a 24-bit address). R1 may contain residual data in the high order byte. HTH, snip In our IEFACTRT (accounting exit), an assembler program, it has the following commands:

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Ward, Mike S
] On Behalf Of Crabtree, Anne D Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 8:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: assembler help! In our IEFACTRT (accounting exit), an assembler program, it has the following commands: L R2,PARMJOBC ICM R1,7,0(R2) If PARMJOBC contains a binary integer length of 4 with 00

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Barkow, Eileen
@bama.ua.edu Subject: assembler help! In our IEFACTRT (accounting exit), an assembler program, it has the following commands: L R2,PARMJOBC ICM R1,7,0(R2) If PARMJOBC contains a binary integer length of 4 with 00 00 00 08, what ends up in all bits of R1? I am trying to add additional

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Steve Comstock
On 8/4/2011 7:02 AM, Crabtree, Anne D wrote: In our IEFACTRT (accounting exit), an assembler program, it has the following commands: L R2,PARMJOBC ICM R1,7,0(R2) If PARMJOBC contains a binary integer length of 4 with 00 00 00 08, what ends up in all bits of R1? Unpredictable. The

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Steve Comstock
On 8/4/2011 7:31 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: [correcting my own post] On 8/4/2011 7:02 AM, Crabtree, Anne D wrote: In our IEFACTRT (accounting exit), an assembler program, it has the following commands: L R2,PARMJOBC ICM R1,7,0(R2) If PARMJOBC contains a binary integer length of 4 with 00 00

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Crabtree, Anne D
Of Barkow, Eileen Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 9:17 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help! A mask of 7 loads the low order 3 bytes, so that r1 would contain whatever the high order byte it contained originally plus 08 in the low order 3 bytes. L R2,PARMJOBC ICM R1,7,0(R2

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Ward, Mike S
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Crabtree, Anne D Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 8:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help! Prior to the L R2,PARMJOBC, there is a LR R1,R1 which zeroes out R1 right? So, does R1 have data

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Staller, Allan
*NO* LR R1,R1 will not zero out R1. SRR1,R1 will zero out R1. snip Prior to the L R2,PARMJOBC, there is a LR R1,R1 which zeroes out R1 right? So, does R1 have data in it or an address? I was assuming that R1 had data in it (with leading zeroes and 8 on the end) and I'm trying to

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Crabtree, Anne D
Of Staller, Allan Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 9:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help! *NO* LR R1,R1 will not zero out R1. SRR1,R1 will zero out R1. snip Prior to the L R2,PARMJOBC, there is a LR R1,R1 which zeroes out R1 right? So, does R1 have data

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Crabtree, Anne D
: Thursday, August 04, 2011 9:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help! On 8/4/2011 7:02 AM, Crabtree, Anne D wrote: In our IEFACTRT (accounting exit), an assembler program, it has the following commands: L R2,PARMJOBC ICM R1,7,0(R2) If PARMJOBC contains a binary integer

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Crabtree, Anne D In our IEFACTRT (accounting exit), an assembler program, it has the following commands: L R2,PARMJOBC ICM R1,7,0(R2) If PARMJOBC contains a binary integer length of 4 with 00 00 00 08,

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread van der Grijn, Bart (B)
Subject: Re: assembler help! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Crabtree, Anne D In our IEFACTRT (accounting exit), an assembler program, it has the following commands: L R2,PARMJOBC ICM R1,7,0(R2) If PARMJOBC contains a binary integer

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread David Andrews
On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 10:20 -0400, Crabtree, Anne D wrote: If anyone is using IEFACTRT to do chargeback and is using multiple SMF30 cpu type fields in the calculation(ie. SMF30ICU, SMF30IIP, SMF30_TIME_ON_IFA, etc...) I'd love to see how you did it. The production version only looks at

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Staller, Allan
See sys1.samplib(ieeactrt) for doc on the parameter lists, snip I realize I'm not asking the smartest questions... PARMJOBC is an address and at that address is the value 0008 (I think). To be honest, I can't even figure out where it is getting PARMJOBC. /snip

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 8/4/2011 6:02 AM, Crabtree, Anne D wrote: In our IEFACTRT (accounting exit), an assembler program, it has the following commands: L R2,PARMJOBC ICM R1,7,0(R2) If PARMJOBC contains a binary integer length of 4 with 00 00 00 08, what ends up in all bits of R1? I am trying to add

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 09:17 -0700 on 08/04/2011, Edward Jaffe wrote about Re: assembler help!: Many have asserted that assembler language skills are inadequate to properly maintain 21st-Century z/OS systems. Would it be better if IBM provided sample exits in METAL C? That depends on what the person's job

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread McKown, John
] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 11:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help! On 8/4/2011 6:02 AM, Crabtree, Anne D wrote: In our IEFACTRT (accounting exit), an assembler program, it has the following commands: L R2,PARMJOBC ICM R1,7,0(R2

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Thomas David Rivers
McKown, John wrote: NO Why? Because we're too cheap to license the C compiler. We do have HLASM. Now, if they want to make the C/C++ come for free, I'd jump for joy. We had a license at one time. But a manager who was struggling to save his job decided that eliminating all non-critical

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 8/4/2011 11:27 AM, McKown, John wrote: NO Why? Because we're too cheap to license the C compiler. We do have HLASM. Now, if they want to make the C/C++ come for free, I'd jump for joy. We had a license at one time. But a manager who was struggling to save his job decided that

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread McKown, John
: assembler help! McKown, John wrote: NO Why? Because we're too cheap to license the C compiler. We do have HLASM. Now, if they want to make the C/C++ come for free, I'd jump for joy. We had a license at one time. But a manager who was struggling to save his job decided that eliminating

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread McKown, John
] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 1:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help! On 8/4/2011 11:27 AM, McKown, John wrote: NO Why? Because we're too cheap to license the C compiler. We do have HLASM. Now, if they want to make the C/C++ come

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Scott Rowe
] On Behalf Of Thomas David Rivers Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 1:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help! McKown, John wrote: NO Why? Because we're too cheap to license the C compiler. We do have HLASM. Now, if they want to make the C/C++ come for free, I'd

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread McKown, John
of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Rowe Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 2:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help! John, Why

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Crabtree, Anne D Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 6:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: assembler help! In our IEFACTRT (accounting exit), an assembler program, it has the following commands: L R2,PARMJOBC ICM

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Scott Rowe
2:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help! John, Why not use GCC? On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 2:44 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.comwrote: But not at a cost of $0.00. We're still in lock down mode. We seem to be doing better as a company

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Jim Thomas
: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 2:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help! I'm too stupid to figure out how to install it. But that was a few years ago. It the z/OS version maintained

assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread john gilmore
It is clear from this and other examples we have seen here that 1) the assembly-language sklls of most installation sysprogs under 50 are rudimentary 2) IBM's maintenance of the HLASM interfaces to system services has low priority and is deteriorating, chiefly because the PL/X interfaces are

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Jim Thomas
(mobile) 636-294-1014(res) j...@thethomasresidence.us (Email) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of john gilmore Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 5:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: assembler help! It is clear

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Jim Thomas
) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Rowe Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 4:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help! I can't help you with that question, since I don't use C myself. I just thought it was interesting

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip--- In our IEFACTRT (accounting exit), an assembler program, it has the following commands: L R2,PARMJOBC R2 now contains PARMJOBC, X'0008' ICM R1,7,0(R2)

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip-- I realize I'm not asking the smartest questions... PARMJOBC is an address and at that address is the value 0008 (I think). To be honest, I can't even figure out where it is getting PARMJOBC. I'm basing the

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Jim Thomas
Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 1:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help! On 8/4/2011 11:27 AM, McKown, John wrote: NO Why? Because we're too cheap to license the C compiler. We do have HLASM. Now, if they want to make the C/C++ come for free, I'd jump for joy

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip NO Why? Because we're too cheap to license the C compiler. We do have HLASM. Now, if they want to make the C/C++ come for free, I'd jump for joy. We had a license at one time. But a manager who was struggling to

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Ed Gould
Jim, The ctrl-alt-delete in Window is the load option in our world. We invented it, so Its quicker! And faster. Ed -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 897c82fc69765d45a301af8f5d1210cb023ea55...@otb6mail01.executive.stateofwv.gov, on 08/04/2011 at 09:02 AM, Crabtree, Anne D anne.d.crabt...@wv.gov said: ICM R1,7,0(R2) If PARMJOBC contains a binary integer length of 4 with 00 00 00 08, what ends up in all bits of R1? Bits 0-7 unchanged,

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In A826B9FD78356242A9D9595912F9B2323A4690FA06@DOITTMAIL03.doitt.nycnet, on 08/04/2011 at 09:16 AM, Barkow, Eileen ebar...@doitt.nyc.gov said: A mask of 7 loads the low order 3 bytes, so that r1 would contain whatever the high order byte it contained originally plus 08 No; R1 would

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In p06240802ca60816d092d@[192.168.1.11], on 08/04/2011 at 01:28 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com said: That depends on what the person's job function is supposed to be. If it is to maintain system exits, an adequate knowledge of assembler language skills (or at least enough reading

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In d173ec266418d84395b4b89759d861d409097...@usmdlmdowx025.dow.com, on 08/04/2011 at 11:03 AM, van der Grijn, Bart (B) bvandergr...@dow.com said: I believe Anne mentioned something about PARMJOBC containing the address to a field with x0..08, rather than the actual value. Even if she meant

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 897c82fc69765d45a301af8f5d1210cb023ea55...@otb6mail01.executive.stateofwv.gov, on 08/04/2011 at 10:20 AM, Crabtree, Anne D anne.d.crabt...@wv.gov said: I realize I'm not asking the smartest questions... PARMJOBC is an address and at that address is the value 0008 (I think). If

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Jim Thomas
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 6:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: assembler help! Jim, The ctrl-alt-delete in Window is the load option in our world. We invented it, so Its quicker! And faster. Ed

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 01a401cc52f5$570e93a0$052bbae0$@us, on 08/04/2011 at 05:24 PM, Jim Thomas j...@thethomasresidence.us said: Forgive me ... I'm confused ... I don't see the connection. In fact, as far as I'm concerned ... why even bother with HLASM vs. sticking to straight good old fashioned tested and

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 11:03 -0400 on 08/04/2011, van der Grijn, Bart (B) wrote about Re: assembler help!: I believe Anne mentioned something about PARMJOBC containing the address to a field with x0..08, rather than the actual value. Looking at the TWS supplied code on our system, that seems to match. It has: L

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Bill Godfrey
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 21:50:24 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com wrote: At 11:03 -0400 on 08/04/2011, van der Grijn, Bart (B) wrote about Re: assembler help!: I believe Anne mentioned something about PARMJOBC containing the address to a field with x0..08, rather than the actual value

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 21:52 -0500 on 08/04/2011, Bill Godfrey wrote about Re: assembler help!: On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 21:50:24 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com wrote: At 11:03 -0400 on 08/04/2011, van der Grijn, Bart (B) wrote about Re: assembler help!: I believe Anne mentioned something about