Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 985915eee6984740ae93f8495c624c6c21f37ff...@jscpcwexmaa1.bsg.ad.adp.com, on 03/05/2013 at 02:18 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com said: Sometimes I wish they had not done away with TNL's (yeah, I know it's impractical in an age of electronic books, It is not, however,

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1631048133608148.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 03/05/2013 at 05:24 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: If you don't find it in the Index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue. Keep in mind the traditional application of said catalog. --

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9933210527218233.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 03/06/2013 at 08:20 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Why is this discussion taking place here ratner than on ASSEMBLER-LIST? Why not? It is on topic. F Assembler? Assembler VS? ITYM XF. Assembler VS was known as

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1362595274.25094.yahoomai...@web181403.mail.ne1.yahoo.com, on 03/06/2013 at 10:41 AM, Lloyd Fuller leful...@sbcglobal.net said: In fact many of the feature upgrades from H Assembler to HLASM came from the SLAC mods descriptions as we wrote SHARE requirements for those features. In at

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-07 Thread Lloyd Fuller
and not Greg's way. Lloyd - Original Message From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+...@patriot.net To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thu, March 7, 2013 9:24:34 AM Subject: Re: Where current HLASM doc? In 1362595274.25094.yahoomai...@web181403.mail.ne1.yahoo.com, on 03/06/2013 at 10:41

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-06 Thread Tom Marchant
Thank you for that link. I was not aware that IBM made closed APAR documentation available to the public. I still think it is wrong for two major machine upgrades to have occurred and yet none of the HLASM manuals was updated. HLASM hasn't really changed. It would be nice if the page at

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-06 Thread John Eells
Paul Gilmartin wrote: snip I had understood that, new with MVS/XA, HLASM was not 'given away' as a part of the operating system, but a separately priced prerequisite. Has that changed, or was I mistaken? snip The 1980's were a long time ago (smile), and I'm not going to look up the history

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-06 Thread John Gilmore
The H Assembler at least was once charged for. The cost was always nominal, US$150 per month is what I remember, but I should not wish to be hanged if that number is wrong. It was widely used because it did SYSGENs, NCPGENs, and the like very much faster than the F Assembler. John Gilmore,

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-06 Thread Paul Gilmartin
Why is this discussion taking place here ratner than on ASSEMBLER-LIST? On Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:02:31 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: The H Assembler at least was once charged for. The cost was always nominal, US$150 per month is what I remember, but I should not wish to be hanged if that number is

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-06 Thread Jim Elliott, IBM
On Wed, 6 Mar 2013 07:46:08 -0600, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote: HLASM hasn't really changed. It would be nice if the page at http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/jelliott/cmosproc.html would be updated to include the HLASM opcode table that is appropriate for each model. It would

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-06 Thread Lloyd Fuller
: John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Wed, March 6, 2013 9:02:36 AM Subject: Re: Where current HLASM doc? The H Assembler at least was once charged for. The cost was always nominal, US$150 per month is what I remember, but I should not wish to be hanged if that number

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-06 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 3/6/2013 9:20 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: F Assembler? Assembler VS? Assembler VS was known as IFOX00, IIRC. I once had a manual that explained the differences. It got left behind in a move. I've never heard IFOX00 called the VS assembler; it's always been the XF assembler in my crowd.

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-06 Thread Charles Mills
documentation for a supported IBM product would be a research project. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 6:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Where current HLASM

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-06 Thread Ed Gould
John, I think your numbers are pretty much OK, We also used asmH (IEV90) for something unique. Its too long and intricate to go into here. Suffice it to say we had clerks creating SQL like inquiries )asm H macros) and would run these in a batch mode that would take 48 hours or more

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-06 Thread Clark Morris
On 5 Mar 2013 15:31:23 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 16:16:50 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: It does not much interest IBM's management, I suspect because it is not the focus of 'interesting' activity. Moreover, it is not a profit center. It generates no

SHARE Requirements (Was: Where current HLASM doc?)

2013-03-06 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 3/6/2013 5:17 PM, Clark Morris wrote: Should there be a SHARE requirement that all APARs that update documentation also cause an update to the related manuals? In these days of electronic documents, that should be relatively inexpensive and not cause a massive distribution of paper manuals.

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-05 Thread Charles Mills
Yes. I'm looking for the documentation. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of DanD Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 4:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Where current HLASM doc? Charles, Are you using

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-05 Thread Charles Mills
04, 2013 12:30 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Where current HLASM doc? Charles Mills wrote: My z/OS R13 collection contains HLASM documentation from 2008. Is there current HLASM documentation? Or has HLASM just not been updated? (I notice my z/OS R13 listings say R6.0.) I find

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-05 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:45:29 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: And, did zEC12 indroduce no new addressing modes nor instruction formats that might affect syntax described in HLASM doc? AFAIK, Addressing modes, instruction formats and syntax for machine instructions are documented in the Principles of

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-05 Thread John Gilmore
Tom Marchant wrote: begin extract AFAIK, Addressing modes, instruction formats and syntax for machine instructions are documented in the Principles of Operation, not HLASM doc. /end extract and this is the impoortant point that needs to be made here. In, general, of course, there are

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-05 Thread Charles Mills
AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Where current HLASM doc? Tom Marchant wrote: begin extract AFAIK, Addressing modes, instruction formats and syntax for machine instructions are documented in the Principles of Operation, not HLASM doc. /end extract and this is the impoortant point

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-05 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 09:20:47 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: And none of the below is an answer to my question: where are HLASM docs that cover the ***HLASM*** (not PoP) changes since 2008? Do you mean like this from the HLASM R6 General Information manual?

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 11:44:18 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 09:20:47 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: And none of the below is an answer to my question: where are HLASM docs that cover the ***HLASM*** (not PoP) changes since 2008? Do you mean like this from the HLASM R6 General

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-05 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 12:57:21 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Are there OPTABLE values that distinguish between z196 and zEC12? (Is there even a difference?) If so, are these documented? The best I can find in the v1R6 Programmer's Guide is ZOP, ZS3, ZS4; 2008 information. As someone said, that

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-05 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 2:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Where current HLASM doc? On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 12:57:21 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Are there OPTABLE

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-05 Thread Charles Mills
All from 2008. Ah, 2008! Remember those fabulous z10's? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Kevin Minerley Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 9:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Where current HLASM doc

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-05 Thread Charles Mills
. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 11:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Where current HLASM doc? On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 12:57:21 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-05 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 3/5/2013 11:18 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: PMFJI here, but documenting important changes only in an APAR leaves out all of the application programmers like myself who have no access to the APAR documentation site, which is restricted to systems programmers with valid IBM logons. I

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-05 Thread Charles Mills
Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 11:37 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Where current HLASM doc? On 3/5/2013 11:18 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: PMFJI here, but documenting important changes only in an APAR leaves out

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-05 Thread Bob Rutledge
Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: PMFJI here, but documenting important changes only in an APAR leaves out all of the application programmers like myself who have no access to the APAR documentation site, which is restricted to systems programmers with valid IBM logons.

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 16:16:50 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: It does not much interest IBM's management, I suspect because it is not the focus of 'interesting' activity. Moreover, it is not a profit center. It generates no identifiable revenue stream; it is instead 'given away' as a part of the

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-05 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: TNLs? Did someone say it's harder to update electronic documentation than hardcopy? Fairly long ago, I understood that in parts of the aviation service industry mechanics were allowed to print hardcopies of

Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-04 Thread Charles Mills
My z/OS R13 collection contains HLASM documentation from 2008. Is there current HLASM documentation? Or has HLASM just not been updated? (I notice my z/OS R13 listings say R6.0.) I find that hard to believe. There could not possibly be no HLASM that supported post z10 op codes. Charles

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-04 Thread Steve Comstock
On 3/4/2013 8:26 AM, Charles Mills wrote: My z/OS R13 collection contains HLASM documentation from 2008. Is there current HLASM documentation? Or has HLASM just not been updated? (I notice my z/OS R13 listings say R6.0.) I find that hard to believe. There could not possibly be no HLASM that

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-04 Thread Charles Mills
instructions. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 7:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Where current HLASM doc? On 3/4/2013 8:26 AM, Charles Mills wrote: My z

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-04 Thread Bob Shannon
How does one turn on the new op codes, then? My (z/OS R13 collection) HLASM documentation of the MACHINE option (for example) ends with ZSERIES-4 Same as MACHINE(ZSERIES-3) but with the addition of support for the z10 instructions. Are you using the collection for 1.3 or for 1.13? Bob

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-04 Thread Charles Mills
Well, it has the 1.13 manuals for z/OS in it ... Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Shannon Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 8:26 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Where current HLASM doc? How does one

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 08:23:43 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: I'm utterly clear on the role of the POP versus the role of the HLASM doc. How does one turn on the new op codes, then? My (z/OS R13 collection) HLASM documentation of the MACHINE option (for example) ends with ZSERIES-4 Same as

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-04 Thread Clark, Stan [PRI-1PP]
] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 11:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Where current HLASM doc? On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 08:23:43 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: I'm utterly clear on the role of the POP versus the role of the HLASM doc. How does one turn on the new op

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-04 Thread Bob Rutledge
Charles Mills wrote: My z/OS R13 collection contains HLASM documentation from 2008. Is there current HLASM documentation? Or has HLASM just not been updated? (I notice my z/OS R13 listings say R6.0.) I find that hard to believe. There could not possibly be no HLASM that supported post z10 op

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-04 Thread DanD
Charles, Are you using the OPTABLE PARM keyword? That will restrict the instructions available to you. Dan -Original Message- From: Charles Mills How does one turn on the new op codes, then? My (z/OS R13 collection) HLASM documentation of the MACHINE option (for example) ends