High Level Assembler: Update for z/Architecture.

This course covers the instructions introduced with z/Architecture.

The course is intended for:

This overview comes in three parts, which are presented in sequence below:

  1. Course Description
  2. Course Objectives
  3. Topical Outline

Course Description

Recommended Duration: 2 Days

Benefits: Students who complete this course will be able to write or maintain Assembler programs that use hardware instructions introduced with z/Architecture and related techniques introduced with z/OS.

Audience: Experienced Assembler programmers needing to update their knowledge to include hardware and Assembler instructions and techniques that have become available with z/Architecture and z/OS. Systems programmers may also benefit from this course as a first exposure to the new hardware and software.

Prerequisites: Experience writing or maintaining Assembler applications; knowledge of predecessor capabilities such as covered in course High Level Assembler: Update.

Related IBM Materials. This course is drawn from this IBM manual; access to it in the classroom is recommended but not required:

Major Topics Include:

Exercises: There are six hands-on exercises; four of them demonstrate using Assembler to generate HTML files from EBCDIC or ASCII inputs.

Note:
All course material is in American English. Oral explanation will be in English by default, but is also available in Dutch, German, and/or French.

This course description Copyright © 2001 by Steven H. Comstock. All rights reserved.


Course Objectives

On successful completion of this course, the student, with the aid of the appropriate reference materials, should be able to:

  1. Describe the major architectural changes introduced with the z/Architecture class of mainframes

  2. Write Assembler programs that use the new instructions, particularly:


  3. Work with files encoded in EBCDIC, ASCII, or Unicode

  4. 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.

These course objectives Copyright © 2001 by Steven H. Comstock. All rights reserved.


Topical Outline

Day One

Introduction

Linkage Issues - Branching and AMODE Setting

Register Management

Decimal Data

Day Two

Binary Arithmetic

Boolean Instructions

Shifting and Rotating - Bits in Registers

Working With Character Strings in IBM Mainframes

Working With ASCII Data in z/OS

Introduction to Unicode

Working With Unicode Data in z/Architecture

Floating Point and Assembler

This topical outline Copyright © 2001 by Steven H. Comstock. All rights reserved.


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