On z/OS® and CMS, the TERM
option lets you receive a summary of the assembly at your terminal.
You may direct the terminal output to a disk data set.
On z/VSE®, the TERM option
lets you send a summary of the assembly to SYSLOG.
The output from the assembly includes all error diagnostic messages
and the source statement in error. It also shows the number of flagged
statements and the highest severity code.
The terminal output can be shown in two formats. Figure 2, the wide format, shows the
source statements in the same columns as they were in the input data
set. Figure 1, the narrow format,
shows the source statements which have been compressed by replacing
multiple consecutive blanks with a single blank. Use the TERM assembler
option to control the format. Figure 1. Sample terminal output in the NARROW format