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Assembler Support

Support for IBM^® High Level Assembler (HLA) has been added to Studio Enterprise Edition and Studio Enterprise Edition Test Server.

Important: This capability is NOT supported in production. It is only supported within development and testing environments.

When migrating applications, COBOL or PL/I programs which call Assembler programs can be demonstrated running on Windows before the Assembler programs have to be converted. This can be instrumental in proof of value exercises that must be undertaken before any investment in the conversion of the Assembler is approved.

When rehosting testing workload to Windows, HLA enables comprehensive testing of mainframe applications that contain 370 Assembler on low-cost Windows environments rather than having to utilize expensive mainframe MIPS.

Features include:

The IBM High Level Assembler available from the product command line
Assembler linker capable of generating assembler data tables or executable code added
COBOL run-time loader modified to load and execute assembler executables
Assembler files can now be added to Visual Studio projects and be edited, assembled and linked using the Visual Studio 2008 IDE
Assembler programs can now be executed for testing purposes within the Studio Enterprise Edition and Studio Enterprise Edition Test Server environments.