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Introduction
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This document provides a summary of the extended mnemonic opcodes for branch instructions. This program may serve as a tutorial for programmers that are new to 370 assembler or as a reference for experienced programmers. In the following tables the leftmost three columns show the mnemonic with the operands and a brief description. The rightmost three columns show the instruction format, the actual mnemonic opcode and the mask and addressing format that is generated from the extended mnemonic.

Notes: D2=displacement, X2=index register, B2=base register, R2=register containing branch address

Unconditional or No Branch
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The following mnemonic opcodes are used for an Unconditional Branch or No Branch.

Branch After Compare Instruction
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The following mnemonic opcodes are used after Compare Instructions.

Branch After Arithmetic Instruction
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The following mnemonic opcodes are used after Arithmetic Instructions.

Branch After Test Under Mask Instruction
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The following mnemonic opcodes are used after Test Under Mask Instructions.

Summary
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