Re: Program Termination (was COBOL record length on z/series)

On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:24:48 -0400 SkippyPB <swiegand@nospam.neo.rr.com>
wrote:

:>Using IBM Assembler, a standard linkage is BALR 14,15 where 14
:>contains the return address and 15 the address you want to go to.
:>Therefore, a BR14 is needed in the called program to return to the
:>next instruction in the calling program.  In the case of a main Cobol
:>program, the BR14 would return to the OPSYS.

R14 points to an SVC 3 instruction.

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