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System/360 channel programs are a sequence of commands which are executed by the channel and the I/O device. Channel programs can be locaed anywhere in main storage. The channel program is a sequence of ''Channel Command Words'' (CCWs), which are normally executed sequentially. Each CCW is a doubleword (eight bytes) as follows:
 
bit 0 7 7 8 31
+--------+-----------------------+
|Command | Data address |