gil wrote: > This feels like an argument for opening the source; GPL. We discussed the idea of open source on the mailing list back in 2021. As I said back then, other IBM internal teams were given a copy of ASMPUT with a view to incorporating similar capabilities into other tools, so I think IBM might want to keep hold of the rights, even though I'm not personally aware of any specific replacement tool.
And, as I've previously mentioned: ASMPUT was originally built for OS/2 (apparently in Prolog and a weird dialect of C) and was then ported to Windows, unfortunately with much less internal documentation and commentary than the original version. The compiler which was used on Windows ceased being supported around HLASM 1.4 and could no longer even be used after licenses expired. Attempts were made to port ASMPUT to similar supported compilers or to another language such as Java, but little progress was made, so in 2017 the HLASM team made the decision to admit defeat and drop support for it, publishing APAR PI81310. [That was while I was assigned elsewhere; I worked as a team member on HLASM & Toolkit from 2012 to January 2014 then switched to supporting GDDM and joining the much-missed Dr John Ehrman in supporting a collection of legacy products including VS Fortran, VSE PL/I and COBOL, DITTO/ESA and SDF II, then I took over leading the HLASM team from June 2017 until I retired in February 2025.] Jonathan Scott
