High Level Assembler - Opcodes overview

The tables below list all documented opcodes for IBM mainframe processors. Each opcode links to a text section with some additional info on the pertinent opcode.

Special thanks:
to David Bond for his instruction lists and tables.
To Jan Jaeger for his list of instructions not listed in IBM's Principles of Operation.
And to Tom Harper for his willingness to share the results of his research on IBM patents relating to z/Architecture instructions.

Opcode Assignments.

Remark:
Please note that the creation of descriptions for all individual instructions is an ongoing process. As yet these descriptions have been created only for opcodes X'00' through X'0F'. The other opcode descriptions are to follow later.

This page contains the following three tables:
Base Set instructions.
Other Instructions.
Assembler Directives.

Base Set

Entries with a slightly darker background are no longer supported on current mainframe hardware and/or not supported by IBM's current version of HLASM. The associated mnemonics are printed in italics.
Opcodes that have no (known) mnemonic assigned to them are denoted by their hexadecimal opcode; these are explained below the table.
Extension sets have no associated mnemonic. These are denoted by their opcode in hexadecimal notation. These link to additional opcode tables.

Please note that instructions X'00' thru X'3F' are register-only operations. Adding X'40' generally yields the opcode of the associated register-and-storage instruction.

  _0 _1 _2 _3 _4 _5 _6 _7 _8 _9 _A _B _C _D _E _F
0_ X'00' X'01xx'
XOPC
    SPM BALR BCTR BCR
X'07m'
SSK ISK SVC BSM BASSM BASR
BASR
MVCL CLCL
1_ LPR LNR LTR LCR NR CLR OR XR LR CR AR SR MR DR ALR SLR
2_ LPDR LNDR LTDR LCDR HDR LDXR
LRDR
MXR MXDR LDR CDR ADR SDR MDR DDR AWR SWR
3_ LPER LNER LTER LCER HER LEDR
LRER
AXR SXR LER CER AER SER MDER
MER
DER AUR SUR
4_ STH LA STC IC EX BAL BCT BC
X'47m'
LH CH AH SH MH BAS
BAS
CVD CVB
5_ ST LAE XDECO XDECI N CL O X L C A S M D AL SL
6_ STD XHEXI XHEXO         MXD LD CD AD SD MD DD AW SW
7_ STE MS             LE CE AE SE MDE
ME
DE AU SU
8_ SSM SPSW
TRCD
LPSW X'83'
DIAG
DIAGNOSE
BRXH
JXH
WRD
BRXLE
JXLE
RDD
BXH BXLE SRL SLL SRA SLA SRDL SLDL SRDA SLDA
9_ STM TM MVI TS NI CLI OI XI LM TRACE
HPR
LAM
TIOB
STAM
CIO
SIO
X'9C0x'
TIO
X'9D0x'
HIO
X'9E0x'
TCH
X'9F0x'
A_ TRFET
LMP
  X'A2x' X'A3x' X'A4xx' X'A5x'
X'A5xx'
X'A6xx' X'A7x' MVCLE CLCLE BRFLG   STNSM STOSM SIGP
X'AE.fc'
MC
B_ CTP
STMC
LRA X'B2xx' X'B3xx' IPB SPB STCTL LCTL LFI
LMC
X'B9xx' CS CDS   CLM STCM ICM
C_ X'C0x'   X'C2x'   X'C4x' BPRP X'C6x' BPP X'C8x'       X'CCx'      
D_ TRTR
XIO
MVN MVC MVZ NC CLC OC XC RSP MVCK MVCP MVCS TR TRT ED EDMK
E_ X'E00x' PKU
XDUMP
UNPKU X'E3xx' X'E4xx' X'E5xx' X'E6xx'
X'E6xx'
X'E7xx'
X'E7xx'
MVCIN PKA UNPKA
X'EAxx'
X'EBxx' X'ECxx' X'EDxx' PLO
X'EE.fc'
LMD
F_ SRP MVO PACK UNPK         ZAP CP AP SP MP DP    

Other Instructions

Some instructions do not fit in the tables because their opcodes are currently unknown. Specifically this is the case for the instructions below. These are all either Coupling Facility (CF) instructions, or MicroCode (MC) instructions. We do know a few opcodes that have been assigned to Coupling Facility instructions, but we have not been able to link any of these to one of the instructions below.

For PXLO we know of various subfunctions, what we know has been included in the table. SYSOP, too, appears to support subfunctions, unfortunately, we have not been able to locate any details at all.

The empty slots indicate instructions that we have been able to associate with an opcode after all.

Facility Operation description Facility Operation description Facility Mnemonic Operation description Facility Mnemonic Subfunction description
CF   MC   MC BRS Branch Relative Special MC PXLO Invalidate Page Table Entry
CF Test Vector Entry MC   MC DIP Drain Instruction Pipeline MC PXLO Load Absolute Address
CF Set Vector Entry MC   MC EXAR EXtract Access Register MC PXLO Load Address Space Control Element
CF Test Vector Summary MC   MC EXARI EXtract Access Register Indirect MC PXLO Load Host Page Table Entry
CF   MC AND Logical Immediate MC EXGRI EXtract program General Register Indirect MC PXLO Load Host Real Address
CF Send Message MC OR Logical Immediate MC EXINT EXtract INTerrupt MC PXLO Load Page Table Entry
CF test message MC Insert Immediate Special Register MC EXTV EXTract Via register-operand register MC PXLO Load Real Address
CF Prepare Channel Buffer MC EXtract program General Register MC MCEND MilliCode END MC PXLO Purge Data Cache
CF Signal Channel buffer MC Set Program General Register MC MSET Millicode SET via register-operand register MC PXLO Purge Instruction Cache
CF Test Channel Buffer MC   MC MVCX MoVe Characters eXecution MC PXLO Purge TLB
CF Move Channel Buffer Data MC   MC OSR Or Special Register MC PXLO Read TLB
CF Locate Channel Buffer MC Set Program Access Register MC PXLO Perform trans(X)Lator Operation MC PXLO Write TLB
CF Transfer Structure MC Set Program Access Register Indirect MC RIRPT Reset InterRuPTion MC SYSOP various subfunctions
        MC SPGRI Set Program General Register Indirect      
        MC SYSOP SYStem OPeration      
        MC TMBP Test Millicode Branch Points      

Assembler Directives

Assembler directives have no opcodes associated with them. Therefore we list them in a separate table. Please see below.

Assembler Directive Description Macro Directive Description DC/DS Field Type Description
ACONTROL Assembler CONTROL ACTR Assembler CounTeR A Address
ADATA Associated DATA AGO Assembler GO to AD Address in Doubleword
AEJECT Assembler EJECT macro listing AGOB Assembler GO Backward B Binary data
ALIAS ALIAS definition AIF Assembler IF C Character data
AMODE Addressing MODE AIFB Assembler IF Backward CA Character data Ascii
CATTR Class ATTRibutes AINSERT Assembler INSERT source line CE Character data Ebcdic
CCW Channel Command Word ANOP Assembler No-OPeration CU Character data Unicode
CCW0 Channel Command Word format-0 AREAD Assembler READ source record D Double hfp data
CCW1 Channel Command Word format-1 ASPACE Assembler SPACE macro listing DB Double Bfp data
CEJECT Conditional EJECT listing GBLA GloBaL Arithmetic variable DD Double Dfp data
CNOP Computer No-OPeration GBLB GloBaL Boolean variable DH Double Hfp data
COM COMmon control section GBLC GloBaL Character variable E Exponential hfp data
COPY COPY member LCLA LoCaL Arithmetic variable EB Exponential Bfp data
CSECT Control SECTion LCLB LoCaL Boolean variable ED Exponential Dfp data
CXD Cumulative eXternal Dummy length LCLC LoCaL Character variable EH Exponential Hfp data
DC Define Constant MACRO MACRO start F Fixed-point binary data
DROP DROP MEND Macro END FD Fixed-point Doubleword binary data
DS Define Storage MEXIT Macro EXIT G Graphic character data
DSECT Dummy SECTion MHELP Macro HELP H Halfword signed binary data
DXD Define eXternal Dummy section MNOTE Macro NOTE J J-type data
length of external dummy section or class
EJECT EJECT listing SETA SET Arithmetic variable JD J-type data Doubleword
length of external dummy section or class
END END assembly SETAF SET Arithmetic variable by external Function L Long exponential hfp data
ENTRY ENTRY point SETB SET Boolean variable LB Long exponential Bfp data
EQU EQUate SETC SET Character variable LD Long exponential Dfp data
EXITCTL EXIT ConTroL values SETCF SET Character variable by external Function LH Long exponential Hfp data
EXTRN EXTeRNal symbol     LQ Long exponential hfp data Quadword aligned
ICTL Input ConTroL     P Packed decimal data
ISEQ Input SEQuence checking     Q Q-type data
external dummy section offset
LOCTR LOCaToR     QD Q-type Doubleword data
external dummy section offset
LTORG LiTeral pool ORiGin     QY Q-type Yonder
external dummy section offset
OPSYN OPcode SYNonym     R Relocatable psect address
ORG ORiGin     RD Relocatable Doubleword psect address
POP POP stacked status     S Standard base-displacement address
PRINT PRINT settings     SY Standard Yonder base-displacement address
PROCESS PROCESSing options     V oVerlay address
PUNCH PUNCH object record     VD oVerlay Doubleword address
PUSH PUSH status onto stack     X heXadecimal data
REPRO REPROduce as object record     Y Y-type data
address
RMODE Residence MODE     Z Zoned decimal data
RSECT Reenterable SECTion        
SPACE SPACE listing        
START START assembly        
TITLE TITLE definition        
USING USING        
WXTRN Weak eXTeRNal        
XATTR eXternal ATTRibutes        

 

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