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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:05:00 PST
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- From: Leonard D Woren <LDW@USCMVSA.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: IEFBR14
- Lines: 39
-
- On Fri, 20 Nov 1992 12:56:00 CST,
- Dave Ulrick <A01DGU1@NIU.BITNET> said:
- > I've heard of two bugs, actually:
- >
- > (a) Originally, IEFBR14 did only a "BR 14". ... Therefore, a PTF
- > was issued to add the "SR 15,15" prior to the "BR 14". Thus,
- > the size of IEFBR14 was doubled overnight. :-)
-
- I doubt if it was overnight, even though it only required adding one
- instruction. Most of us could have done it overnight... IBM
- probably closed it "Sugg", then upon appeal marked it "Under Study",
- then eventually changed it to "Long Range Consideration", and
- eventually fixed it in release n+2. If you think I'm joking, call up
- and open an incident over TRANSMIT and RECEIVE having BLKSIZE=3120
- hard-coded for the LOG files. That's closed SUGG. It will not be
- fixed in TSO/E V2R4, scheduled for delivery 1Q93.
-
- > (b) It was not originally link-edited as being refreshable and
- > reusuable. Another PTF was issued (or so the story goes) to
- > relink-edit IEFBR14 with those attributes.
- >
- > I heard all of this second-hand, of course, so I will happily
- > stand corrected. If I'm right, though, there have been a total
- > of *two* bugs in IEFBR14.
-
- I think this topic pops up on this list periodically. And I also have
- some recollection of someone claiming there's now a new problem with
- IEFBR14 -- it's not marked RMODE(ANY) AMODE(ANY). Anyone wanna try
- for another APAR? ;-)
-
- Suppose that you're running AMODE31, and you LOAD and BASSM to
- IEFBR14. Won't you get control back in AMODE24? This is a "rock and
- a hard place" problem, and as such it's probably not APAR-able. If
- IEFBR14 were changed to return via BSM, then someone else would APAR
- the fact that if you call it via BALR, it fails, and they'd have to
- mark the PTF PE and change the code back. Anyway, IEFBSM14 doesn't
- have the same ring...
-
- /Leonard
-