OS/390 Assembler Language: Update
- Recommended Duration:
- 1 Day
- Version
- High-Level Assembler (HLASM)
for MVS & VM. - Benefits
- Students who complete this course will be able to write or maintain Assembler programs that use more recent hardware instructions and Assembler techniques.
- Audience
- Experienced Assembler programmers needing to update their knowledge to include hardware and Assembler instructions and techniques that have become available during the 1990's.
- Prerequisites
- Experience writng or maintaining Assembler applications.
- Major Topics
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- Obvious Assembler enhancements (long names, case insensitivity, blank lines, new data types, embedded blanks in DC values)
- Assembler Parms
- *PROCESS statements
- ASMAOPT data set
- Additional hardware instructions: * Multiply single (MSR, MS) * Halfword immediate (AHI, CHI, LHI, MHI, TMH, TML) * Logical String Assist (CLST, CUSE, MVST, SRST) * Extended instrucions (MVCLE, CLCLE, TRE) * Relative Branching (BRAS, BRC, BRCT, BRXH, BRXLE)
- New extended mnemonics
- Labeled USINGs
- Dependent USINGs
- Labeled Dependent USINGs
- Introduction to Unicode and Unicode support in Assembler
- Exercises
- There are four hands-on exercises.