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My ideas: IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM

Generate EQU record in ADATA

I am updating a program that generates record mappings from ADATA to handle EQU. The data that I need are split between SOURCE and SYM records. I would like an EQU record similar to the DCDS record, providing information missing from the source re...
3 months ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler Not under consideration

Document order of ADATA

I'm writing a program that creates record mappings from ADATA. It needs to collate data from multiple record types. It currently depends on the order ESD, SOURCE, DCDS, SYM, but that order is not documented. I would like for IBM to document the se...
3 months ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler Under review

Document the BXH/BXLE/JXH/JXLE trick

An article in either the systems journal or the journal of RF&D described using BXH and BXLE to test 30 bits in succession. This trick is still valid and extends to 62 consecutive tests in AMODE64. It would be useful to have it in either the e...
6 months ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other Not under consideration

Enhance the ITERATE macro to include a condition.

If the ITERATE macro supported conditions, every assembler program that uses ITERATE within a DO construct will be smaller and more efficient.
7 months ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit Planned for future release

Provide a new system variable symbol to provice the current RMODE value

Useful in macros to determine current RMODE at assembly time.
over 1 year ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler Not under consideration

Enhance SuperC (ISRSUPC) to Add Option to Suppress Report Headers

Using SuperC in Batch (ISRSUPC) the ability to suppress the report headers would be helpful for applications that only need the report data.
almost 2 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit Not under consideration

Support JXH and JXLE for exit t the beginning of a loop

Support JXH and JXLE for, e.g., ASMEXIT, DO WHILE, DOEXIT, IF, for testing loop termination at the beginning.
almost 2 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit Not under consideration

Flag RX instructions with index but no base register

It has been a common malpractice since more than half a century not to use a base register but the index register in rx instructions, e.g. L Ra,100(Rb) instead of L Ra,100(,Rb). Historically, this implied some performance penalty (AFAIR), nowadays...
over 3 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler Not under consideration

nothing to say

don't see any thing useful
over 3 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other Not under consideration

COPYLIB DD for COPY code, SQLLIB DD for SQL INCLUDE

Assembler copy code and macros are distinct types of elements that can be mutually dependent. Because they are read from the same SYSLIB DD they need to be assigned different names. A COPYLIB DD for copy code would support matching named macros an...
about 4 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler Not under consideration

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