On 10/25/2012 4:27 PM, Kirk Talman wrote:
A business person at our company asked me if it was possible to flowchart HLASM programs.
Applied Data Research had a flowcharting program that handled ForTran and Assembler. I don't know whether it is still available and up-to-date.
- I think no at the source level because of macros.
User macros would be a problem, but IBM macros could be supported. ADR allowed overrides in the comments field to control processing, so a macro could be defined as branching or decision making; otherwise it would just put comments in a box.
- I think it is difficult at the assembly listing level because of nested PRINT OFF statements in macros and copied code.
Those could be made NOPs with OPSYN at the start of the code, without other source changes.
- Is ADATA from an assembly rich enough to use to do a flowchart, at least in theory? I have not used it before.
ADATA contains all of the source, the generated code, and then some. You can do many wonderful things with it. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT
