On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 10:35:32PM -0000, Dave Wade wrote:
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I'm confused, and could use some clarification.
The VM Assembler is the Assembler XF and the load modules are identical to the MVS ones. However, CMS doesn't have any JCL so it¡¯s a pain typing in a load of FILEDEF commands for all the work files.
To avoid this IBM provides a CMS Interface, DMSASM which parses the CMS command line and sets up all the FILEDEFS and converts the CMS argument strings into an OS PAFRMLIST ready to run the ASSEMBLER.
So its part of CMS rather than the ASEMBLER and mark was having issues with it not working as documented. I suspect over the years no one has tried to do what Mark wants to do even though the docs imply its possible.
(it says you can issue a FILEDEF for the source file, but ASSEMBLE aka DMSASM always wants a file name making the FILEDEF pointless....)
I am not. I am using ASSEMBLER to refer to the Assembler XF and ASSIST to refer to ASSIST.
You need to use the normal ASSEMBLER to fix ASSIST so we need to talk about both.
In fact one of the things that¡¯s missing from ASSIST appears to be the equivalent CMS front end.
At present you have to issue a load of FILEDEFS and run it in batch mode.....
Thank you, Dave.
That joins all of the scraps that I have been reading ( skimming? )
here.
My experience with these was in the MTS environment at the University of
Alberta. Quite a different command line ( and user interface ).
Brian
