I might have felt that way in 1960 if SOAP and TASS had an EQU statement;; I 
certainly didn't feel that way once I had routine access to a 3270 for my TSO 
sessions.


--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

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From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [[email protected]] on behalf 
of Charles Mills [[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, June 1, 2020 5:07 PM
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Subject: Re: z/OS HLASM: EQU for statement labels

I use 0H if it is the beginning of a section of code and there might be an 
odd-length DC in front of it. But I use * when I am jumping around one 
instruction.

Revealing my age, I got in the habit of using EQU rather than labeled machine 
instructions because if you are using punched cards and need to insert a new 
instruction right after the label, you only have to punch one card if you used 
EQU, but two if you put the label on a machine instruction.

Charles


-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Mike Shaw
Sent: Monday, June 1, 2020 1:52 PM
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Subject: Re: z/OS HLASM: EQU for statement labels

I agree with Gerhard; I was taught and use

label    DS    0H

for labels instead of EQU.

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