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 > -- http://twitter.com/DougieLawson
