Micro Focus Mainframe Express™

Assembler Option Technical Guide

MERANT™

Issue 3
June 1999

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Preface

The Assembler Option component of Mainframe Express provides an environment for the development of IBM 370 Assembler application programs within the integrated development environment of Mainframe Express.

Audience

This technical guide is for Assembler programmers who need information about the advanced features of the Assembler Option component of Mainframe Express. The basic features and functions of Assembler Option are described in the Mainframe Express User's Guide and the online help that is part of Mainframe Express.

Notation

The following type styles and conventions are used in this Guide:

• Text that you type is shown like this:

  cat script_name | more

  The italic text denotes a variable that you type as part of the command.

• Optional text in command lines and code examples is shown in square brackets. In the following example, the expression can specify that the column_name is like the pattern_value, or is not like the pattern_value, depending on the absence or presence of the optional word NOT:

  column_name [NOT] LIKE pattern_value

• A section or paragraph that applies only to a particular model or operating system is identified by a bold italic heading immediately preceding the paragraph or section. For example:

  Windows 95
  This paragraph only applies on Windows 95 systems.