I recently noticed that some assembler comments were being hi-lited
strangely within the ISPF editor. I finally realized that this was only on
packed decimal literals, the high-lighter is treating the closing quote of
the packed value (without an explicit length) as if it were the opening
quote of a character literal. This seems to have started when we upgraded
to z/OS 1.13.
Example (non-assembling) code:
TEST2 TITLE 'Test assembler'
TEST2 CSECT
CLC CHAR,=C'AA' Character
CLC PACK,=P'10' Packed <---WRONG!
CLC PACK,=PL3'11' Packed
CLC BIN,=F'20' Fullword
CLC BIN,=H'20' Halfword
END
The list server won't accept images, so copy the above into an ISPF edit
session, and switch hi-liting on.
Can someone verify that hi-liting works properly in ISPF edit prior to z/OS
1.13 for me.
Robert Ngan
CSC Financial Services Group
