Thanks to all who responded. My original questions did indeed revolve around the invocation of macro language builtin functions, during assembly of source code.
As Jonathan Scott pointed out, the proposed NFIND and NINDEX functions are not currently part of the HLASM version that is out there, but it would be nice if they could be delivered as part of the builtin functions with the next release. I've since constructed my own macro language logic that provides the functionality that is needed, during assembly time. Best regards, Andre