On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Bill Klein <wmkl...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > I am a COBOL person not an Assembler person. Don't the "grande" > instructions require a specific "architecture level set"? If so, that might > be why (as others in the thread have indicated), COBOL does NOT do what you > are asking about.
Yes, but it's not exactly a late-breaking ALS -- like, circa 2000. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html