On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 08:42:55 -0500, Kenneth Wilkerson wrote: > >However, in your initial post you talked about the above sequence involving >the TR being complex. I assume you're talking about the translate table >itself. When I need translate tables that are not "simple" and particularly >error prone, I write a program to create it. I would quadword align the >origin and result tables, do the tests and sets (in this case X'80' to >'X01', ... X'01' to X'80'), load the address of the result table in a >register, DC H'0' to get an 0c1. I would set a slip and run the job. I could >then format the dump and cut and paste (with a little manipulation) the >table into an assembler source. In this case, if the first and last 16 bytes >of the table are correct, the its probably 100% correct. I find the half >hour I use doing this for "error prone" translate tables can save me hours >debugging later. > Another contributor to this list would probably achieve the result with a HLASM macro.
Not every programmer is authorized to set SLIPs, I believe. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
