"Get thee behind me, Satan!" <grin>

I'm willing to write APF code, if absolutely necessary. But I never
fiddled with control blocks other than via an IBM supplied API type
interface. I know that vendors sometimes must do such things. But I find
it very scary. 

On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 09:18 -0500, Bill Hecox wrote:
> You can use MODSET KEY=ZERO to put yourself in KEY0.  Then you can
> modify any storage you have access to 
> which includes the operating system. This can be dangerous. If you modify the 
> wrong area of memory you can cause other programs to fail and they will have 
> a difficult time figuring out what happened. The general practice is to go 
> into KEY0 for only the specfic instructions that you need. Then go back to 
> your normal KEY. MODESET KEY=NZERO .
> 
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