Have a look at your service level for ISPF module ISRPEASM. There's a few
APARs out there for assembler highlighting.

If you're up to date then open a new PMR.


On 8 November 2012 00:41, David de Jongh <[email protected]> wrote:

> Robert,
>
> FWIW, I'm on the same machine as you, and get the same result as you do.
>
> David de Jongh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]
> ]
> On Behalf Of Robert Ngan
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 5:03 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: ISPF EDIT hi-liting of packed literals?
>
> 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
>



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