Course Overview

• Getting Caught Up
• The Assembler – Part 1
• Computer Exercise:  The Assembler, Part 1

The Assembler – Part 2

• Assembler Parms
• Sources for Assembler Parms
• Installation defaults
• *PROCESS statements
• ASMAOPT data set
• PARM on EXEC statement
• Computer Exercise:  Assembler Parms

Changes to the Instruction Set – Part 1

• Multiply Single (MSR, MS Instructions)
• Halfword Instructions: AH, CH, LH, MH, SH, STH (old stuff)
• Halfword Immediate Instructions: AHI, CHI, LHI, MHI (new stuff)
• RI Instruction Format
• Halfword Immediate Test Instructions (TMH, TML)
• ‘C’ Assist Instructions (CLST, CUSE, MVST, SRST)
• Interruptible Instructions
• CLCLE, MVCLE Instructions
• TRE Instruction (TRanslate Extended)

Relative Branching

• Relative Branching Instructions
• BRAS, BRC, BRCT Instructions
• BRXH, BRXLE Instructions
• Applications of Relative Branching Instructions
• Extended Mnemonics
• Computer Exercise:  Using the Relative Branching Instructions

New USING Features

• Domain and Range of USINGs
• Labeled USINGs
• Dependent USINGs
• Labeled Dependent USINGs
• USING Range Limits
• DROP
• Computer Exercise:  Labeled USINGs

Introduction to Unicode

• Characters
• Characters, Glyphs, and Fonts
• Coding Schemes
• Codepages
• Standards
• Unicode

Unicode Support in Assembler

• Hardware Instructions
• Assembler support

Other Enhancements

• Hardware – Floating Point Changes
• Assembler Enhancements
• New data types
• New object code facilities