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: zEC12, z114, z196, z10, 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 an 1.6, as useful and appropriate
- Create and access sequential large format data sets.
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