Re: Looking for an answer to an SVC question

2016-07-08 Thread Jantje.
On Thu, 7 Jul 2016 09:37:40 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: >Meanwhile, Google is sometimes my enemy. With the Linux system I >am running, certain links will not function correctly, >particularly when they point directly to a .pdf (thank you Adobe >for abandoning Linux). > Well,

Re: Looking for an answer to an SVC question

2016-07-07 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 7/7/2016 at 09:37 AM, Steve Thompson wrote: > Meanwhile, Google is sometimes my enemy. With the Linux system I > am running, certain links will not function correctly, > particularly when they point directly to a .pdf (thank you Adobe > for abandoning Linux). When I

Re: Looking for an answer to an SVC question

2016-07-07 Thread Steve Thompson
Thank you. I had looked but somehow did not see this manual there. And it took a bit of effort, but I finally found the SVC Table and there it was, NOP. Regards, Steve Thompson On 07/07/2016 09:28 AM, John McKown wrote: On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Norbert Friemel

Re: Looking for an answer to an SVC question

2016-07-07 Thread Steve Thompson
Yes quite interesting. I had forgotten all the particulars, and there in the list you pointed to was an an answer I gave to the subject... Meanwhile, Google is sometimes my enemy. With the Linux system I am running, certain links will not function correctly, particularly when they point

Re: Looking for an answer to an SVC question

2016-07-07 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Norbert Friemel wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jul 2016 08:54:29 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: > > >I am looking for an old Field Engineers Handbook entry on SVCs. > > > >SVC 50 used to be documented there (and as I recall, it doesn't > >say much, but what

Re: Looking for an answer to an SVC question

2016-07-07 Thread Norbert Friemel
On Thu, 7 Jul 2016 08:54:29 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: >I am looking for an old Field Engineers Handbook entry on SVCs. > >SVC 50 used to be documented there (and as I recall, it doesn't >say much, but what it does say is important). > >I'd like to know what is found in one of those books. I

Re: Looking for an answer to an SVC question

2016-07-07 Thread Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM
Google will answer anything. I found a tablet hat does not have a description for MVS, but for CMS (DOS ON) it says: LIOCS DIAG. Another article https://www.mail-archive.com/ibm-main@bama.ua.edu/msg92290.html calls it the NOP SVC in S/360. Intersting stuff. Kees. -Original Message-

Re: Looking for an answer to an SVC question

2016-07-07 Thread Blaicher, Christopher Y.
I have a OS/VS2 Debugging Handbook, Second Edition, 1978 and it says RESERVED. Maybe at some point between then and now it was documented. On my system SVC 50 points to a IEFBR14 sequence. If somehow you could get to +4, it does a few instructions and issues an SVC 13. I think it is best to