I gave up TSO TEST for ASMIDF years ago. Give it try.

In article <listserv%201104051934476841.0...@bama.ua.edu> you wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 15:36:24 -0400, Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net> 
> wrote:

> >
> >I too continue to use TSO TEST for certain things, and indeed it would
> >be a very good thing if they would add just a few little updates:
> >
> >Better floating point support, as you suggest
> >
> >Access register support
> >
> >64-bit GPR support
> >
> >64-bit indirection (the IPCS syntax would be consistent)
> >
> >TEST (and other TSO components) are extra frustrating because however
> >dead-ended TSO may be, there *are* updates going on, but they never
> >seem to take the opportunity to make minor enhancements while they
> >have a module open for other purposes. Yeah, I know - internal
> >politics, time & budget allocation, and so on. But most development
> >labs manage to sneak in a few enhancements under the RADAR from time
> >to time.
> >

> Yes, I've discussed some of those with the TSO guy. The basic problem with 
> all of them seems to be that they hit the TSO TEST register save and restore 
> processing and that is non-trivial to upgrade plus its hard to do piecemeal.

> I've done a fair amount of AMODE(64) testing on TEST and it seems to run 
> AMODE(64) stuff just fine; its just that you can't see the addresses when 
> they're in registers...  :-(

> Writing the code is the easy part; its getting the resources to thoroughly 
> test 
> what you've written that stops you dead in your tracks.

> W. Kevin Kelley -- IBM POK Lab -- z/OS Core Technical Development
>  

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