OS/390 Assembler Language Debugging and Maintenance
- Recommended Duration:
- 2 Days
- Version
- High-Level Assembler (HLASM)
for MVS & VM. - Benefits
- Students who complete this course will be able to write or maintain Assembler programs that: involve subroutine linkages. Students will also have a solid basis for debugging and dump reading Assembler programs.
- Audience
- Experienced Assembler programmers needing to learn additional debugging, or maintenance skills in the Assembler language environment.
- Prerequisites
- The student should have practice in coding and testing Assembler programs and should be familiar with the editor and the job submission and review facilities used in their installation.
- Major Topics
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- Program linkages and save areas
- Obtaining PARM data from the EXEC statement
- QSAM macros and processing
- SYNAD routines
- Subroutines and the Linkage Editor
- Debugging and dump reading
- The Program Binder
- The WTO and SNAP macros
- Exercises
- There are four hands-on exercises.
- Notes
- This course is included in its entirety in the course OS/390 Assembler Language: Update.