Table of Contents

• Cover
• Notices
• Trademarks
• Changes in this Release
• Chapter 1 - Introduction
• About the Tachyon Assembler Workbench
• Cross Platform Development
• Product Benefits and Use
• Tachyon Assembler Workbench Editions
• Personal Edition
• Advanced Edition
• Developer’s Edition
• Professional Edition
• Chapter 2 - Setting up the Assembler
• System Requirements
• Product Files
• Installation
• Environment Variables
• X390ERR
• X390INI
• X390LIB
• TMP
• Chapter 3 - Running the Assembler
• Starting the Assembler
• Using the CICS Translator Feature
• Command Line Arguments
• File Names
• Input Files
• Source Files
• Macros and Copy Files
• ZIP Files
• TAR Files
• CMS MACLIB Files
• Option Files
• Output Files
• Assembly Listing
• Assembly Messages
• Object File
• Punch Deck
• Associated Data File
• Make Dependency File
• Work Files
• Option Variables
• Library Search Path
• Using Option Files
• Using the Assembler with XDC
• Controlling the Listing Paper Size
• Chapter 4 - Assembler Options
  • ACONTROL
  • ADATA
  • ADATALEVEL
  • ALIGN
  • ASA
  • BATCH
  • CODEPAGE
  • COMPAT
  • DBCS
  • DECK
  • DXREF
  • ESD
  • FLAG
  • FOLD
  • GOFF
  • IDR
  • INCLUDE
  • INFO
  • LANGUAGE
  • LIBEXIT
  • LIBMAC
  • LINECOUNT
  • LINEWIDTH
  • LIST
  • MAKEDEPEND
  • MACHINE
  • MAKEFILE
  • MSGLEVEL
  • MXREF
  • OBJECT
  • OPTABLE
  • PCONTROL
  • PESTOP
  • PRINTCTL
  • PROCESS
  • PROFILE
  • QUIET
  • RA2
  • RENT
  • RLD
  • RXREF
  • SIZE
  • SECTALGN
  • SUPPRESS
  • SUPRWARN
  • SYSADATA
  • SYSLIB
  • SYSLIN
  • SYSPARM
  • SYSPRINT
  • SYSPUNCH
  • SYSTEMID
  • SYSTERM
  • TERM
  • TEST
  • THREAD
  • TRANSLATE
  • TYPECHECK
  • USING
  • USINGLIMIT
  • USINGMAP
  • WORKFILE
  • XOBJECT
  • XOPTS
  • XREF
  • ASCII Translation Options
• Chapter 5 - Accessing Host Libraries
  • Using the Network File System (NFS)
  • Using the LIBEXIT Facility
    • Coding a LIBEXIT
  • Managing Downloaded Files
  • Running the Macro File Compression Utility
    • Macro File Compression Utility Options
• Chapter 6 - Character Set Translation
• Code Points and Code Pages
• CODEPAGE Option
• EBCDIC Code Pages
• ASCII Code Pages
• Chapter 7 - Compatibility
  • Language Differences
    • ACONTROL
    • MHELP
    • REPRO
  • Assembler Options
    • COMPAT
    • EXIT
    • TERM
  • System Variables
  • Implementation Differences
    • Assembler Type Checking
    • Expression Complexity
    • External Symbols
    • Floating Point Values
    • Forward Length Resolution
    • Look-Ahead
    • Sequence Symbols
  • Language Extensions
    • Macro Functions
    • Self Defining Terms
    • *PROCESS
    • ACONTROL
    • ADATA
    • CNOP
    • DC, DS, DXD and Literals
    • EQU
    • ORG
    • SETC
• Chapter 8 - Messages
• Appendix A - License Control
• Appendix B - Product Support
• Appendix C - Instruction Tables
• Operation Code List
• Mnemonic List
• Name List
• Operation Code Tables
• Assembler Instruction List
• Assembler Instruction Table
• Appendix D - ADATA Support
• Appendix E - ELF Support
• Developing for Linux
• ELF Concepts
• Assembler Options
• Coding for ELF
• Assembling GNU Assembler Files
• Appendix F - The tas Program
• Running the tas Program
• Assembling GCC Programs
• Appendix G - Tachyon Legacy Assembler for MVS 3.8