All Another tool you might consider is the z390 Portable Mainframe Assembler which is open source and runs on Windows and Linux. It provides an HLASM compatible mainframe assembler, linker, and emulator including problem state support for 64 bit registers, HFP, BFP, DFP, BSAM, QSAM, and VSAM. It also includes a zCOBOL compiler that generates HLASM source code with data labels and paragraph labels and supports HFP, BFP, and DFP. It also includes zCICS transaction processor that runs on any TCP/IP network with local and remote TN3270 terminals. The entire package is written in J2SE Java which is open source and does not require any other software. Visit www.z390.org to learn more and download InstallShield executable for Windows for all of the above including GUI and command line interfaces. There is also file image download for Linux installs.
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