Yes, there is a limit which why I should have coded
DS 0XL(...)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER-
> l...@listserv.uga.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2014 12:09 PM
> To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: How to assign length of generated instructions to macro
> variable?
>
> On 2014-08-16, at 12:16, retired mainframer wrote:
> >
> > DS 0AL(MACRO_PARM_SPECIFYING_LENGTH-(EN&SYSNDX-
> ST&SYSNDX)+1)
> >
> Is there a limit on the value that may be assigned as the length
> attribute of a symbol? (ISTR 256.) But some other instructions
> (perhaps ORG) might accept larger positive values but fail on any
> negative value.
>
> -- gil
