On May 11, 2011, at 18:44, John Ehrman wrote: >> HLASM Toolkit includes its own version of SuperC (ASMFSUPC). >> It appears to provide the same function as the one that comes >> with ISPF (ISRSUPC). > > It's the same program. In the HLASM Toolkit Feature, it's available on MVS, > VM and VSE. > A pernicious manifestion of Conway's law. There are two sets of documentation, not always in sync, and two sets of M&C, not always in sync, and having different prefixes. On not finding a message code in LOOKAT, I have been advised to change the prefix and try again.
We have ISPF, but not HLASM TK. At least once I have opened an APAR on ISRSUPC and received with the closure the advice that the PTF will be generated first for ASMFSUPC, then adapted to ISRSUPC. IBM would provide better service for its customers, and almost certainly an economy for itself if SuperC existed as a separate FMID, bundled with both HLASM TK and ISPF. For the component prefix a neutral one, neither ASMF nor ISR would be a satisfactory resolution. I recommend locking the developers in a chapel and not feeding them until white smoke billows from the chimney. -- gil
