SAMPLE SUBENTRY * * SAMPLE CODE TO TRANSLATE TRUE HEX TO PRINTABLE HEX USING TROT * THE TRANSLATE TABLE IS 512 BYTES * * THE REVERSE OPERATION IS ALSO...
MELVYN MALTZ provided sample code to translate hexadecimal to printable hex. The code included the comment: "THE REVERSE OPERATION IS ALSO POSSIBLE USING...
All I've submitted #4 sort full word array - BSORT.MLC using structured programming submitted as worst case to beat. I also uploaded the BSORT.LOG file...
... Mark is exactly right. The new instructions TROT and TRTO provide the facility to do this translation either way in one go, rather than a loop. Up to 2GB...
All Now 6 problems have been submitted. Mark Dixon added question #5 - convert hex characters to binary. Melvyn Maltz has submitted the first solution to ...
All Update #3 - 2 new floating point problems have been added and the contest web page URL has been fixed. The new URL for the contest web page is here ...
... I am not sure that Melvyn's TROT example is 100% correct. From my understanding, TROT is one of the new breed of instructions that need to be re-driven...
Philippe Thanks for contributing solution all the way from Portugal. I've added your contribution to the contest web site. Would you like to add alma mater ...
Hi Mr. Higgins, I don't have z390 installed...I'm using a real T-Rex machine. Anyway I want to thank you for all your great work with z390. PS.: By the...
Hi Don,
I've just uploaded possible solution for #6 (EZSAMPLE). It had nothing to do with my email server.
Regards,
Raymond Wong
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Could not resist, the DispBits solition was quite nice, but the TR at the end is unnecessarily slow -- a simple NC with 8X'F0' is sufficient to make the stored...
Hi Don,
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I am submitting a possible solution for #6.? I don't have a Email server setup here so I am using AOL to send this and I'm not sure it is the...
... OPERATION ... NOT ... converting ... than a ... receive ... hexadecimal ... this ... streams ... suffice. ... Thankyou for your contribution. You are...
Anyone got it lower than 2mS ? The last one added for interest, 30 years since I did that. Sorry Don, I broke your 100 line rule, take the comments out !! ...
All Update #4 - A new solution to problem #6 using 5 instructions for the complete conversion by Raymond Wong: * PROBLEM 6 SOUTION SUBMITTED BY RAYMOND WONG *...
Does z390 support the decimal data types P and Z and the decimal instructions such as CVD? If so, an old chestnut of a coding problem is the representation of...
The attached code should be the most compact form of generating a binary character string from a byte value (Problem #6): MVC OBUFF,IBYTE Copy the byte to...
... And of course, Don's correction of my NC to OC shows once again that you cannot program without TESTING FIRST (Doh!). I knew that, I really did, I swear I...
Here is my attempt (just the code without all the other stuff). It shifts the bits from one register to another, positions them correctly, saves it, and then...
Here we go again - we're having endless discussion on the topic with one of our software vendors... Please make the currency symbol a multi-byte variable and...
Hi Mark, It's easy. Use EDMK and TP, the parentheses have to be inserted manually, sorry don't have the time to give you sample code. Mel (developer of...
All Update #5 - All z390 mainframe assembler coding contest solutions have been reformatted using new ZMFACC macro for portability across multiple OS and new...
From: Mark Dixon [mailto:MarkDixon@...] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 7:31 PM To: Don Higgins Subject: ZMFACC Solution for z390 Mainframe Assembler...
All You heard it here first. I am challenging those of you who like to write conditional macro mainframe assembler to develop a universal self aware version...
A minor variation on a previous solution to problem #1. Instead of three 20-byte MVCs, I use two, one 20-byte and one 40-byte. It requires A,B and TEMP to...
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