C416 z/OS Assembler Programming Part 3: Update

Course Code: C-416
Recommended Duration: 1 Day

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 writing or maintaining Assembler applications.

Related IBM Materials

This course is drawn from these IBM manuals; access to them in the classroom is required (via hardcopy, BookManager, etc.):

SA22-7201 - ESA/390 Principles of Operation
SC26-4941 - HLASM Programmer's Guide
SC26-4940 - HLASM Langage Reference

Major Topics Include

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 instructions (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 the Assembler

Exercises

There are four hands-on exercises

Course Description

z/OS Assembler Programming Part 3: Update