On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 18:31:15 -0500, Sam Golob wrote: > > BTW, if you are still at z/OS 2.2 or below for the assembly, then >use the hard-coded displacements of the new fields, off the beginning of >the PSCB and UPT, so the assembly doesn't fail because IKJPSCB and >IKJUPT macros (at the old level) don't contain labels for the new fields. > IBM could (have) provide(d) compatibility by making the 8-byte variants of those macros available in a toleration PTF for any supported older releases, eliminating the need for hard-coding displacements.
What effect is there on languages other than assembler: JCL, TSO, Rexx, ISPF, ... which might have (internal) 7-character reply buffers? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
