The Migration Guide is also your friend: [V5.2] High Level Assembler No Longer Required for Stand-Alone Dump Utility The IBM High Level Assembler is no longer required to build the Stand-Alone Dump Utility. This has resulted in incompatible changes to a number of macros. Customers who have saved their HCPSDC ASSEMBLE source from previous releases must recreate it on z/VM V5.2 when prompted by the HCPSADMP EXEC.
pdb (Doug Breneman) z/VM System Test IBM Endicott, NY From: David Boyes <dbo...@sinenomine.net> To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 11/16/2010 08:31 AM Subject: Re: APARs and PTFs for the z196 Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> Secondly, you do not need HLASM to create/maintain the standalone dump program. HCPSADMP checks for HLASM, HASM, and ASSEMBLE (FASM). It can use any of them. Really? That’s cool. I’ve been continuing to order HLASM on systems that don’t need it, then. Any idea when that change went in?
