FYI, my products are assembled on my linux desktop with Dignus.
While, another company, for which I do some major development work,
performs all assemblies on z/VM.
I have not assembled my VSE code on VSE in years. :-)
Tony Thigpen
-----Original Message -----
From: Ed Jaffe
Sent: 12/04/2013 06:00 PM
On 12/4/2013 2:27 PM, Jon Perryman wrote:
Implementing relative instructions into your macro's won't buy you
much. In fact, you can skip this step until you make your programs
optimized to using relative instruction by including "COPY IEABRC" at
the beginning of the program will change offset branches into relative
branches without modifying anything else.
On z/OS 1.10 and higher, you might consider using IEABRCX instead. Example:
IEABRCX DEFINE Define B-to-J conversion macros
IEABRCX DISABLE (same)
Then you can easily enable/disable only where needed. Example:
IEABRCX ENABLE Enable B-to-J conversion
IKJRLSA POPTANSP Release IKJPARS storage
IEABRCX DISABLE Disable B-to-J conversion
IEABRCX also supports PUSH/POP so you can easily enable/disable the
conversion in a macro without having to know what's going on in the open
code.
None of this works on z/VSE. :-( It's one reason why we do our z/VSE
product assemblies on z/OS.
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Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
831 Parkview Drive North
El Segundo, CA 90245
http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
