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? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN