ASMA now supports all machine instructions through September 2017, including vector instructions. These changes required updates to the Machine Specification Language files without change to the exist

PRIORITIES My #1 priority in SATK is fixing something that has been committed but is not working correctly. Functionality released by others to which SATK is trying for comparable support is the next

Just about everybody who uses ASMA wants this enhancement. The latest update to the SATK repository has this change including the ASMA documentation. POP/PUSH now includes the option of USING along wi

SATK now provides a set of reusable boot loaders for each of the Hercules targeted architectures: S/360 (uses S/370 in BC-mode), S/370, ESA/390, and z/Arch. A set of programs in the guide directory, p

Program 4 illustrates the use of a boot loader in conjunction with the Hello World program used for program 3. The Guide.pdf / Guide.odt files have been updated with new information for the new sample

Does anyone have a definitive resource on how to define or locate UCBs when running a stand-alone tool or other OS (other than an IBM SCP that provides its own macro interfaces to find a UCB)? Thanks

Right in the middle of working on the Guide, my PC had a disaster and then some. Fortunately it was not the PC itself, although I had to backup a bunch of data, install a new OS, install and configure

At present, iplasma.py is restricted to a simple IPL program. It does not understand how to IPL a boot program that reads the storage device to access the booted program. My plans are to continue work

I have just committed Guide Program 3 (and its associated samples directory) to the SATK repository. Program 3 is another version of Hello World. The big difference from the previous two programs is t

The new subscriptions to the group seems to have subsided, so I thought a status would be helpful. ASMA, a mainframe assembler supporting all platforms, old and new, with a full battery of macro tools

And all things about Bare-Metal mainframe programs! Harold Grovesteen