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    Change ASMA033I severity from 0 to 4

    Our product requires 241 separate assemblies. When reviewing a gen, we take closer looks at any assembly having a non-0 completion code. ASMA033I errors currently are SEV 0. That means that they get missed when a GEN is reviewed. If they were chan...
    over 3 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 4 Future consideration

    Permit named PUSH/POP statements

    When the assembler reaches an END statement, and there remains unPOP'd PUSH USINGs, it issues ASMA138W . Well, in large complex assemblies, finding the unPOP'd PUSH or PUSHs can be rather a challenge. In my own coding, I have solved that by replac...
    over 3 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 1 Not under consideration

    Fully support 32-bit EQUs (maybe even 64-bit EQUs as well)

    The assembler's support of 32-bit EQUs is arcane, to say the least. Consider: EQU1 EQU X'80000000' EQU2 EQU X'80000000'+1 EQU3 EQU X'7FFFFFFF'+1 The EQU1 and EQU2 statements are fine.The EQU3 statement gets flagged with ASMA074E. I do understand t...
    over 3 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 3 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 2 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 2 Not under consideration

    Package Software Analyzer as OCI to use with zCX

    We would like to be able to run Software Analyzer inside a container as part of our pipeline. It would likely be inside zCX but in the end it could also be on x86. This will ultimately depend on the build environment our customer uses. We are vers...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

    Software analyzer : Documentation explaining code conformity/violations with examples

    Some of the existing software analyzer built-in rules are not very comprehensive with examples. It is becoming more difficult to read code violation report and correct themselves by developers. For example built-in rule "Avoid using 88-entries in ...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

    ISPF ISRSUPC to permit FINDALL to work against individual PDS members

    Add an MVS ISPF ISRSUPC/SuperC search option similar to FINDALL that works against discrete members of a PDS. ISRSUPC's FINDALL process option returns a positive match only if all SRCHFOR criteria are met. This works fine for a sequential file; ho...
    over 7 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 3 Not under consideration

    Improve ability to define structures with power-of-2 size

    When writing assembler code, it is often desirable or even necessary to define a structure with a length that is an integral power of 2. Reasons for such might be to avoid crossing a cache-line boundary; to be able to allocate an array of structur...
    over 9 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 1 Not under consideration

    IDz Software Analyzer should work with many Programs

    In IDz you can select multiple Programs in the Software Analyzer Configurations. When you for example select "Analyze selected projects" for a Project with 902 Cobol Files you will get an error. Please see Ticket "IDz Software Analyzer could not p...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

    Usage of Software Analyser with EWM EE

    When one wants to trigger a scan, the pop-ups expose a view of the EWM folders connected to IDZ. Unfortunately it is not possible to trigger an analysis from these folders
    over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 2 Not under consideration

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