Elardus,

Very funny ....

On Monday, May 11, 2015, Elardus Engelbrecht <elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za>
wrote:

> John Gilmore wrote:
>
> >I cannot detect any "feature creep".  IEFBR14 sets a return code of zero
> and branches on the contents of R14.  The rest is of no great interest.
>
> Thomas Berg is writing 'tongue in cheek' that people simply don't
> understand the environment in which IEFBR14 runs. I agree 101% with Thomas.
>
> He is also referring to all those 1001 'behind the curtain' services the
> z/OS is running before giving control to IEFBR14 running with only two
> instructions.
>
> For me, IEFBR14 has a lot of unforeseen 'features' [1] still waiting to be
> discovered by bored z/OS sysprogs... ;-)
>
> Groete / Greetings
> Elardus Engelbrecht
>
> [1] - How many bytes does IEFBR14 occupies in storage? Only a few bytes or
> a full 4K page? I also believe that IEFBR14 PDS directory entry in the
> LinkList contains more bytes (name, location and attributes like AC) than
> the actual module it refers...
>
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