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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM
Categories Assembler
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 18, 2022

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Assembly Listing Headers - Four lines of USINGs information is not enough

Currently, the page headers area for Assembly listings is limited to 8 lines: title line, page number, column headers and... from two to four lines of active USINGs information.

I use named USINGs a LOT! So much so, that I frequently blow through this 4 line limit. It doesn't really take that much to overflow the area.

Sometimes I really do need to see something more informative than "More ...".

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Apr 12, 2022
    This requirement seems rather unusual but is understandable. However, the internal implementation of this maximum of four lines is not as easily changed as one might hope, and has side-effects on other aspects of the assembler. For example, the assembler has a minimum LINECOUNT value of 10 and assumes that this will always leave at least 3 lines for listing lines after a maximum of 7 heading lines. Also, we are not aware of this limitation having been previously mentioned in the 30 years since the active USING headers were implemented.

    Given limited resources and other priorities, we therefore do not expect to implement any change in this area in the near future, so we are declining this request, although we will add it to our long-term suggestion list.

    - Jonathan Scott, HLASM

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