Accessing the assembler

To access the High Level Assembler on CMS, you must first link to the mini-disk containing the assembler by issuing the CP LINK command. You must then issue the ACCESS command to assign a file mode, and make the mini-disk available to CMS. For example:

CP LINK PRODUCT 194 198 RR PASSWORD
ACCESS 198 B

In this example, you have linked to disk 194 of the virtual machine that contains the High Level Assembler product, and whose user ID is PRODUCT. You have defined disk 194 as 198 to your VM session. You have read access to the disk (RR) and you specified the read-share password for the 194 disk (PASSWORD).

After you linked to the 194 disk as 198, you accessed the 198 disk as disk B on your system. After you have access to the product disk, you can invoke the assembler using the ASMAHL command (see Invoking the assembler on CMS).

If High Level Assembler is stored on your A-disk, or another disk to which you already have access, you can omit the CP LINK and ACCESS commands. If High Level Assembler is not on a disk that you have accessed, you can put the CP LINK and ACCESS commands into your PROFILE EXEC, which issues them for you each time you log on. For more information about the CP LINK and ACCESS commands, see the applicable CP Command Reference for your VM environment, as listed under Bibliography.