Yes, LE uses word 1 (or word 0 if you will). Charles
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 9:51 AM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Base-less macros And IIRC in ancient days the PL1 runtime used to use word 1 of the RSA for its own purposes. Don’t know if LE and Enterprise PL1 (or Enterprise COBOL for that matter) continued that tradition or not.