(Everyone should do this) Help the poor macros out. Tell them via SYSSTATE OSREL and ARCHLVL what the macros are allowed to assume. Unless you like lousy code.
The XM services were written when non-stacking PCs were the only thing available and the interface for non-stacking PC requires various hoops to be jumped through. But those PC's were changed to stacking many releases ago (z/OS 1.6). For the most part we try not to assume things about what release you might be running your code on, and thus the default remains to expand the way it originally did. But you almost always know better. Share that information. Unless you like extra STM, ESAR, SSAR, LM in your expansions. At a minimum, pick the oldest release your code might run on. If that oldest release is older than z/OS 1.6, perhaps you could consider changing your business model. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
