RE: What is PEP?

The way it was described to me years ago, is that it is the entry point
for each program. The PEP receives control when your program is called.
It then checks to see if you're in debug mode and launches the debugger.
If not, it transfers control to the Entry Module and its entry procedure
and the "program" starts running.

I seem to recall that it was only a few (eight?) instructions long, but
that's going back what, 7 years...

Bob Cozzi
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> Hi, there!
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> I have a simple three questions.
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> 1) What is a PEP (Program Entry Procedure ?
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> 2) And what is the significant of the existence ?
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> 3) Does IBM borrow the concept from the other language?
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> TIA
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> Regards.
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