High Level Assembler and Toolkit Feature

IBM® High Level Assembler and Toolkit Feature is a flexible development solution for all Assembler Language applications.

Improve programmer productivity and simplify program development and maintenance with this assembler and optional toolkit.

• Provides all the proven facilities found in earlier assemblers and many new facilities
• Helps you develop programs and subroutines for functions not typically provided by other symbolic languages, such as COBOL, FORTRAN, and PL/I
• Offers the optional High Level Assembler Toolkit Feature, a powerful and flexible set of tools that improves application recovery and development
• Includes, in the Toolkit Feature, the following tools: Disassembler, Cross-Reference Facility, Program Understanding Tool, Interactive Debug Facility, Structured Programming Macros and Enhanced SuperC
• Adds support for Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs) to enhance cross-language communication and new conditional assembly functions and attributes for more powerful macros in the latest release

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• Support for Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs) to enhance cross-language communication

• Macros/COPY files in USS file system for cross-system use

• Eight-byte address constants for IBM® z/Architecture® applications in 64-bit mode

• New conditional assembly functions and attributes for more powerful macros

• New and improved diagnostics to enhance application reliability

• Enhanced usability with warning-suppression option

• Simplified tool integration with improved SYSADATA record layouts

• Cross-system compatibility assisted by ASCII constants

• Simplified macro coding with longer macro arguments and string variables

Operating System	Software	Hardware
MVS/ESA	IBM System Modification Program/Extended (SMP/E)
VM/ESA	IBM VM Serviceability Enhancements Staged/Extended (VMSES/E) and VMFPLC2
VSE/ESA	Maintain System History Program (MSHP) to install High Level Assembler