Radoslaw Skorupka wrote:
>The "8 characters rule" is widely used in z/OS and mainframe world.
>Why?

Presumably because a doubleword is a nice, discrete size of data-big enough to 
be useful, small enough to manipulate with things like two (now one) register?

And Steve Beaver added:
>The simplest path on this discussion is to try it in batch or ispf. The only 
>other way is in HLASM with the STOW macro

Try what? Unclear what you're suggesting?


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