On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote:
> Yeah, I know, there's an assembler listserve and this isn't it. I'm not on > it and I think most of its members are also here. This IS a mainframe > question ... > > Yeah, I could test the basic issues but I am wondering if anyone is doing > this extensively and "happy with it." What are the gotchas? Those are tough > questions to answer via experimentation. > > Is anyone using HFS files as their main repository of source code input to > and/or object code output from HLASM? The HLASM manuals are strangely > silent > on the issues: > > - Is the assembler "happy" with serial UNIX file type input, with records > of > varying lengths up to but not exceeding 80? > - How about SYSLIB? I know technically a USS directory can satisfy BPAM -- > is HLASM happy with directories as libraries? Does it work if you > concatenate your own HFS directory(ies) to SYS1.MACLIB and the like? > - How about output? Does SYSLIN output to a USS folder seem to work out? > > Why do I ask? I have C code in HFS and assembler code in PDSEs and the > "management" details are a little incompatible. Not hopelessly so, but > somewhat. It might make sense to consolidate the high level structure. > > Thanks, > > Charles > Yes. I did an entire project (for myself, not work) using z/OS UNIX as the repository for the files, both SYSIN and SYSLIB (the latter is a bit weird). I also used the "as" UNIX command to do my assemblies. Which were driven using the UNIX "make" command. One thing which made this much easier was FLOWASM ( ftp://ftp.phoenixsoftware.com/pub/demo/asmmods.xmi ), ref: http://planetmvs.com/hlasm/tips.html . FLOWASM is an HLASM user exit program for reading the SYSIN & SYSLIB. It makes HLASM "free format". Quite nice! This was a case of "eating your own dog food" because I was developing some UNIX utilities. If you're curious, these are available on the CBTTape.org site, in file #864 http://cbttape.org/cbtdowns.htm -- Heisenberg may have been here. Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
