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Switch between slot in SW00SR view don't work

In Toolkit 4.6, in debug, the SW00SR view is not updated when switching from one slot (TPFDF database) to another. Example in attach file : when we click on the second slot (25000B00), the details (and also Core Blocks, ...) are note updated with ...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Is a defect

Identify concatenation number in SRCHFOR of sequential DSNs

When a SuperC SRCHFOR operation is performed on a concatenation of PDSes, the listing will identify a concatenation number for the data set containing the member where the string was found. But when the concatenation is of sequential data sets, th...
almost 11 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit 3 Not under consideration

z/TPF Program Analysis Tool

Headline: Program Analysis Tool 2. Lead Contact: mark.whitney@travelport.com 3. Date 2018-04-26 4. Description: a. Multiple z/TPF Customers, Travelport, Citibank, Amex, Marriott, Delta, and SABRE, desire an implementation desire a Progra...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

System Variable Symbol &SYSRMODE

I need a way to determine the RMODE of a CSECT from within a MACRO, if the RMODE was set via either an RMODE statement, or a CATTR statement.
about 8 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 1 Not under consideration

SuperC read Panvalet

Please add support for reading Panvalet to SUPERC.
over 8 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 2 Not under consideration

Reentrant check fails when labels in an RSECT are used to map dynamic (writable) storage

When using the label of a field defined in an RSECT to map some other (writable) area of storage pointed to by a register, the reentrancy check is applied. This causes message "ASMA036W" to be issued even though there is no reentrancy violation. A...
over 4 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 1 Not under consideration

HLASM ADCON Type for Weak External Reference

HLASM would provide a new ADCON type (e.g. W or WV) that would generate an address constant containing a weak external reference to a symbol in another module to be linked with the module containing the W ADCON reference. This new ADCON type would...
over 4 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 4 Not under consideration

SuperC - Do Not Report Spacing Changes Unless Within Quotes

There is an existing option, DLREFM (suppress reformatted lines from the listing) which although it does suppress the reformatted lines from the OLD file, it does not suppress them from the NEW file. Another option, REFMOVR, suppresses reformatted...
about 9 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 3 Not under consideration

Provide SPM ITERATE-like analogue with conditions, similar to LEAVE/DOEXIT

An analogous macro to ITERATE with conditions, similar to DOEXIT & ASMLEAVE, would be very helpful to write more understandable code and take advantage of internal z Systems pipelining, instruction prefetch, and branch prediction. (Note: I hav...
over 9 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Flag SS instructions with a (probable) incorrect use of implied operand length

Please consider the following two MVC instructions, both of which use the implied length of the first operand: MVC FULL1,FULL2 perfectly reasonable MVC FULL1+2,HALF explicit length of 2 is obviously missing…FULL1 DS FFULL2 DS FHALF DS H* LTORG The...
over 10 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 3 Not under consideration