Edward, This topic started because Johnny Luo asked about the contents of an object module. My reply included a reference to the REP card and thus another strand of the original thread spun off. (This covers Ray's question.)
In the thread I reminisced over a particularly tricky use of the REP card to compensate for a PL/1 bug in CICS. I believe it was an, I expect, unintentional 32K limit to a CICS PL/1 transaction program. I'm pretty sure this was a VS1 system since I'd outgrown DOS (VSE) by then and hadn't yet made the complete step to MVS. It was 1973[1]. Since this indicates the use of the REP card was permitted in at least one of the "big brother" systems, I'd be inclined to expect it to be available to all. However, I checked the z/OS "Program Management" manuals and none confess to knowing anything about the word "REP". [1] The reason I recall the details is that I was getting a suite of demonstration programs ready to show that Cyrillic 3270s actually worked. The Soviet ministry's machines lacked PF keys which were a key feature of the demonstration suite. Each program needed to be modified and one broke the 32K mark. Fixing up the programs was more high pressure than it might have been because I was having to do the work in Vienna[2] away from my usual technical base. In Vienna the changed programs worked. Did they work in Moscow? No. Fortunately very shortly afterwards, it was discovered that Cyrillic 3270s needed X'BF' as the poll character rather than X'7F' and the suite worked as it should - so I was told. [2] Something else I remember, as was a granite habit, I took two copies of the programs on tape. In this case, the first one didn't work. Maybe it was a reflection of the tape technology of the time. Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Jaffe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> Sent: Tuesday, 18 April, 2006 5:10 PM Subject: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?) > Ray Mullins wrote: > > >The only place I've found documentation on REP is in the z/VSE manuals - > >that's how MiSHaP translates object code zaps, by adding REP cards to the > >end of the object deck. > > > > > > Sorry. I missed the start of this thread. Are you saying the z/OS PM > Binder accepts REP cards like the z/VSE linkage editor does? Yippee! > Does it work for GOFF objects too? > > -- > Edward E Jaffe > Phoenix Software International, Inc > 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 > Los Angeles, CA 90045 > 310-338-0400 x318 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
