C500 Objectives

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z/OS Assembler for Applications Programmers - Course Objectives

On successful completion of this course, the student, with the aid of the appropriate reference materials, should be able to:

Describe the major architectural changes introduced with the z/Architecture class of mainframes
Write Assembler programs that use the new instructions, particularly
        * Relative branch Long instructions
        * Instructions to set and test current addressing mode
        * Instructions to perform 64-bit binary arithmetic
        * Instruction to test packed decimal data for validity
        * Instructions that allow you to work with arbitrarily long binary numbers
        * Instructions that can set and test bits in storage and registers
Work with files encoded in EBCDIC, ASCII, or Unicode
Convert numeric values between floating point and fixed binary or packed decimal, to work more effectively in inter-language communication with programs written in C, C++, and Java
Work with memory objects: storage above the 2GiB bar
Code, assemble, bind, and run programs that run AMODE64
Use new instructions introduced with each of the series of machines z9, z990, z900, z890, and z800, including how to detect the presence or absence of particular facilities at run time
Use some of the new facilities introduced by HLASM 1.5, as useful and appropriate
Create and access sequential "large format" data sets.