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This RFE is one of a small group which had apparently been set aside incorrectly years ago and subsequently overlooked. We are sorry for the delay.
This appears to be an obscure bug, so we have logged it as a defect to be investigated, and this RFE is being rejected accordingly.
Originally, the use of LQ within any section (control or dummy) required the option SECTALGN(16) as otherwise HLASM considered that the section alignment was not strong enough to guarantee the required alignment. This was modified by APAR PK79869 so that quadword alignment was automatically assumed for a DSECT. However, it appears that code to handle the length value has assumed that there is still an unresolved discontinuity at that point during "interlude" processing, which means that the alignment is being fixed up too late to allow the length to be used as a duplication factor.
The problem can be bypassed by adding alignment before the relevant structure and changing the length expression to refer to the label after the alignment point:
AIADSECT DSECT ,
DS 0LQ <-- Added
AIAVRS DS 0CL512
DS 32LQ
AIALENTH EQU *-AIAVRS <-- Changed from AIADSECT
Jonathan Scott, HLASM