John Gilmore wrote:

>I cannot detect any "feature creep".  IEFBR14 sets a return code of zero and 
>branches on the contents of R14.  The rest is of no great interest.

Thomas Berg is writing 'tongue in cheek' that people simply don't understand 
the environment in which IEFBR14 runs. I agree 101% with Thomas.

He is also referring to all those 1001 'behind the curtain' services the z/OS 
is running before giving control to IEFBR14 running with only two instructions.

For me, IEFBR14 has a lot of unforeseen 'features' [1] still waiting to be 
discovered by bored z/OS sysprogs... ;-)

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

[1] - How many bytes does IEFBR14 occupies in storage? Only a few bytes or a 
full 4K page? I also believe that IEFBR14 PDS directory entry in the LinkList 
contains more bytes (name, location and attributes like AC) than the actual 
module it refers...

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