I think we are missing some points here. If you put a label on an instruction, the symbol is defined with the correct length (2, 4, or 6), and a type of C'I'. Unless and until there is a MACRO that does this, I can't endorse either DS 0H or EQU *; use structured macros instead.
OREXXMan JCL is the buggy whip of 21st century computing. Stabilize it. Put Pipelines in the z/OS base. Would you rather process data one character at a time (Unix/C style), or one record at a time? IBM has been looking for an HLL for program products; REXX is that language. On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 4:29 PM Steve Thompson <ste...@copper.net> wrote: > On 08/02/2018 04:09 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > > On 2018-08-02, at 14:00:37, Steve Thompson wrote: > >> > >> I haven't touched a Univac since 1979. So I forgot a few things. But > still, the 36 bit words made it a pain for communicating with a DEC. I was > asked how to get them to talk to each other... It was interesting -- > thankfully I kept doing FORTRAN-77 and someone else built the interface box. > >> > > "If you don't have 36-bit words, you're not playing with a full DEC!" > > > > PDP-6, decsystem-10 and decsystem-20 had 36 bits. Vax broke the mold. > > > > -- gil > > > It was NASA. They were using old equipment. I don't remember > which DEC boxes they had, I was told that the I/O interface was > 16bits wide. > > But, the Space Shuttle flew in spite of the fun we had writing > the ground support software. -- Goddard Space Flight, Beltsville MD > > Regards, > Steve Thompson >
