Day One

Fundamentals

• Programming concepts
• Source, Object, and Load Modules
• Memory and Data Representation
• Addressing
• The CPU
• Computer Exercise:  Setting Up For Programming

• Machine Instruction Formats
• Base / Displacement Addresses
• Assembler Language and the High Level Assembler (HLASM)
• Basic Program Structure Requirements
• Computer Exercise: Coding, Assembling, Linking, Running

Data Description, Moving Data, Record Processing

• Defining Constants and Work Areas (DS and DC Statements for Character Type Data)
• MVC instruction
• Instruction Styles and Formats
• Introduction to Branching
• Introduction to Record Processing
• Data Organization
• DCB Macros
• OPEN, GET, PUT, CLOSE Macros
• Record Processing – An Example
• Computer Exercise:  File To File Program

Compares, Branches, and Linkages

• Record Layouts
• Programming Techniques: MVC
• CLC Instruction and the Condition Code
• BC, BCR Instructions
• Extended mnemonics
• BAS, BASR, BAL, BALR, IPM Instructions

Day Two

More on Addressability

• What Can Go Wrong?
• Storage Protect Keys
• Computer Exercise:  List Fields From A Record

Packed Decimal Arithmetic

• Zoned Decimal Format
• Packed Decimal Format
• DC and DS for Zoned and Packed Type Data
• Packed Decimal Instruction Set: PACK, UNPK, ZAP, CP, AP, SP, MP, DP
• Arithmetic Concerns
  • Significant digits
  • Keeping Track of Decimal Points
• Computer Exercise:  Packed Decimal Calculations

More Assembler and Arithmetic Concepts

• Redefining Storage
• Creating Data Structures
• The Assembly Listing Components
• Introduction to Debugging
• Rounding
• MVO – Move With Offset
• SRP – Shift and Round Packed
• Half-Adjusting Data

Day Three

Editing Packed Decimal Fields

• DS / DC for Hexadecimal Data
• ED Instruction
• Edit Patterns
• Computer Exercise:  Edit Packed Decimal Data

A Deeper Look at Instruction Formats

• DC / DS for Binary Data Type
• Addresses in Instructions
• Explicit Coding – Review
• Tables
• LA Instruction
• Instruction Formats (SS, RR, RX)
• MVI, CLI Instructions
• Instruction Formats (SI)
• MVN, MVZ Instructions
• Computer Exercise:  Using Immediate Instructions

Binary Integer Data

• Binary Integer Data Formats
• Twos Complement
• DC/DS for Fullword, Halfword, and Doubleword Binary Data
• Boundary Alignment
• CVB, CVD Instructions
• L, LR, ST Instructions
• A, AR, S, SR, C, CR, MR, M, DR, D Instructions
• Concerns Of Working With Binary Integers
• Working With Binary Numbers – An Example
• Computer Exercise:  Binary Arithmetic Computations

Day Four

More Binary Instructions

• Compare Instructions
• LPR, LNR, LCR Instructions
• Logical Arithmetic : AL, ALR, CL, CLR, SL, SLR
• Halfword Instructions: AH, CH, LH, MH, SH, STH

EDMK

• EDMK and floating dollar signs
• Computer Exercise:  Floating Dollar Sign

Loops and Tables

• Literals
• LTORG
• Address Constants
• EQU – Equate Symbol
• Loop Control
• Tables
• BCT, BCTR, BXLE, BXH, IC, STC
• Computer Exercise:  Table Processing

Day Five

Multiple base register DSECTS, ORG

• STM, LM
• Multiple Base Registers
• CNOP
• Dummy sections – DSECTs
• ORG
• Computer Exercise:  Using DSECTs

Working With Bits

• O, OC, OR, OI, N, NC, NR, NI, X, XC, XR, XI
• Sorting Tables
• LTR, TM Instructions
• More on EQU
• Computer Exercise:  Sorting a Table

Shift Instructions

• SRL, SRA, SLL, SLA, SRDL, SRDA, SLDL, SLDA Instructions
• Code Fragment: Display Bit String

Translate

• Instruction Set: TR
• Code Fragment: Display Hex String
• Code Fragment: Direct Access to a Table
• Computer Exercise:  Build a Table Dynamically

TRT and EX

• TRT – Translate and Test
• EX – Execute
• TRT and EX

Strings

• String Handling
• ICM, CLM, STCM Instructions
• MVCL, CLCL Instructions
• MVCIN Instruction

Setting Addressing Mode

• Addressing Mode
• AMODE and RMODE
• BASSM – Branch And Save And Set Mode
• BSM – Branch and Set Mode