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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/TPF Product Family
Categories z/TPF
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 14, 2014

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snapc and wtopc baseless

Customer is asking that both the snapc and wtopc macro be made baseless to support application that are being written with baseless in mind.
Here's an example of an application error.
00001364 28768+ DS 0H Align @411.074 01-SNAPC
00001364 AF02 0000 00000000 28769+ MC 0,SNAPC SNAP call @411.074 01-SNAPC
00001368 90 28770+ DC B'10010000' Options 01-SNAPC
00001369 E4 28771+ DC CL1'U' Prefix @411.074 01-SNAPC
0000136A 008710CD 28772+ DC XL4'8710CD' SNAP dump number @411.074 01-SNAPC
0000136E 0000 28775+ DC S(ERMSG01) Appended message @411.074 01-SNAPC
** ASMA307E No active USING for operand ERMSG01
** ASMA435I Record 385 in /ztpf/ibm/put09a/base/macro/*.mac(SNAPC) on volume:
00001370 0000 28776+ DC Y(0) Default prog-name @411.074 01-SNAPC
00001372 0000 28777+ DC Y(0) Default l'prog-name @411.074 01-SNAPC
00001374 0000 28778+ DC Y(0) No LISTC group @411.074 01-SNAPC

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/TPF

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Transaction Processing
    Product - z/TPF

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 4, 2014

    This can be accomplished by using the LARL instruction and then pass the address via a register. No product changes are planned.

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