z/OS Assembler Programming, Part 3: z/Architecture and z/OS

Course Overview

• Introduction to the Course
• Fundamentals - A Quick Review
• The Advent of z/Architecture
• The Assembler, Part 2
• Linkage Issues - Branching and AMODE Setting
• Storage Management and I/O Concerns
• Register Management
• Macro extensions and debugging
• Decimal Data
• Binary Arithmetic
• Boolean Instructions
• Shifting and Rotating - Bits in Registers
• Working With Character Strings
• Working With ASCII Data in z/OS
• Introduction to Unicode
• Working With Unicode Strings in z/Architecture
• The Extended-immediate Facility
• The Dead Zone, and More
• More Thoughts on AMODE64
• HLASM update
• Newer hardware instructions
• More High Level Assembler
• More Instructions by Facility
• Still more instructions
• Appendix: Listing of ASMREPT code as supplied

Prerequisites

z/OS Assembler Programming, Part 2 or equivalent experience