On Wed, 4 May 2016 13:16:38 -0500, John McKown wrote: >On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:01 PM, J R wrote: >> In light of this confusion, one wonders why the developer opted to format >> the message in hexadecimal. > >At the very least, he should have either done a x'????' like HLASM or a >0x???? like C. > Some Rexx component takes system messages which are documented in hex in M&C and displays them as decimal. Some were truncated on the left to 8 decimal digits. I went to SR. IBM (FSVO) fixed the problem by making the field variable width, extending to 10 digits as needed. Still not very useful for decoding the code where M&C explains the structure in bytes.
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