Re: IEFBR14 (was Re: IND$FILE)

2018-11-19 Thread ben via cctalk
On 11/19/2018 5:27 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 2:24 PM Sean Conner via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: I've always been amused by IEFBR14 ever since I heard about it. I first came across it by this quote: Every program has at least one bug and can b

Re: IEFBR14 (was Re: IND$FILE)

2018-11-19 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 2:24 PM Sean Conner via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I've always been amused by IEFBR14 ever since I heard about it. I first > came across it by this quote: > Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least > one instruction-

IEFBR14 (was Re: IND$FILE)

2018-11-19 Thread Sean Conner via cctalk
It was thus said that the Great jim stephens via cctalk once stated: > > IFBR14 if you all are not familiar with MVS / MVT batch programming is a > program which immediately terminates w/o any return codes by doing an > assembly language return to the caller of the job step via the contents > o