> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <ASSEMBLER- > [email protected]> On Behalf Of Peter Relson > Sent: 18 May 2020 13:21 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Close MACRO in Z390 > > <snip> > This is what happens in Assembler XF if the () is the result of SETC > substitution. In HLASM, this can be duplicated using COMPAT(SYSLIST). > </snip> > > z/OS has not supported the use of assembler XF for decades. >
Perhaps, but I am not a zOS user .... On the VM side its still supplied and documented in great detail, in the zVM V7R CMS Commands and Utilities Reference Manual with no caveats as to its use. So whilst perhaps not supported, it is part of the standard as supplied zVM offering so may have been in use until recently. > Peter Relson > z/OS Core Technology Design Dave
