On 2/21/2012 8:52 AM, McKown, John wrote:
I keep my HLASM source in z/OS UNIX files. "Just because I want to.". This works well for me. The only problem that I've run into is
when I edit with "vi" (yes, I get what I deserve). ISPF edit "knows" that if I replace "ABCD" with "EF",
it should only move the non-blank characters immediately to the right of the "ABCD" left. vi doesn't do this. This is really disruptive
of continuation characters in column 72. So, looked at FLOWASM. Wonderfully, one thing it allows is continuation of a statement without the
continuation character in column 72! So I thought it would be wonder to use and remove all the characters from column 72. Unfortunately, FLOWASM
uses RDJFCB on the DCB which describe the input dataset. This RDJFCB gets an RC of 4 when the input is a UNIX file.<sigh>. It appears that
the RDJFCB is really only used to pass back the DSN and volume of the input dataset to the assembler.
I'm wondering if I have an old version and a newer version supports input from
a UNIX file. Did I mention that I keep my macros in UNIX as well? Yes, I'm
weird.
I will take a look at this...
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