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

Key features include:

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

IBM High Level Assembler and Toolkit Feature provides numerous technology and business benefits: