In assembler you could handle the address, then UNPK 5 bytes into 9, translate the FA-FF in the 8 bytes and blank the 9th. Increment by 4 and repeat to fill line, and repeat to process address range. On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 1:15 PM Farley, Peter x23353 <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's Friday, so how about an off-the-wall question I have always wondered > about. > > I think the answer to my question is "no", but I thought it worth asking > anyway. > > Standard system storage dumps (SYSUDUMP, SNAP/SNAPX, etc.) format storage > displays like this in a 121-character line: > > 36B219C0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 > 00000000 *................................* > > Obviously there are many ways to produce such a line in your language of > choice, but is there any available interface to the system routines that > display storage in this format? Not the I/O to print them or send them to a > file, just the "storage dump formatting into a print line" part. > > I am of course assuming that the storage formatting routine has been rendered > in some common-code subroutine used by all (or some of) the "dumping" > routines, which may or may not be a fact. > > TIA for your answer even it (as I strongly suspect) the answer is "no". > > Peter > -- > > > This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the > addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If > the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized > representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail > and delete the message and any attachments from your system. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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