Assembler Language: Update - Course Objectives
On successful completion of this course, the
student, with the aid of the appropriate reference materials, should be able to:
- Code and maintain programs written in Assembler language that use any of
the following instructions and techniques:
- Long names, mixed case names, blank lines
- Use Assembler parms to control behavior of the Assembler, including the
use of *PROCESS statements, the ASMAOPT data set, and profile information
- Use many of the new instructions available for the applications
programmer:
- Multiply Single: MSR, MS
- New Halfword Immediate instructions: AHI, CHI, LHI, MHI
- Test Under Mask in register: TML, TMH
- Logical String Assist: CLST, CUSE, MVST, SRST
- Extended compare, move, translate: CLCLE, MVCLE, TRE
- Relative Branch: BRAS, BRC, BRCT, BRXH, BRXLE
- Unicode: CUUTF, CUTFU
- Use the new extended mnemonics for branch instructions
- Use labeled USINGs, dependent USINGs, and labeled dependent USINGs, as
appropriate and necessary to the application
- Describe the concepts of Unicode, and when it is needed
- Describe other new hardware and software features of possible interest to
z/OS Assembler applications programmers.
Course information: C416 / 1
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