PN77616: ASMA140W ** WARNING ** END RECORD MISSING CAN BE ERRONEOUSLY ISSUED. THIS CAN ALSO RESULT IN ASMA092 AND ASMA435 ERRORS.

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• MSGASMA140W ** WARNING ** END record missing   can be issued
  when not expected due to input records getting "lost" after
  having been read by Assembler Lookahead.  This problem only
  occurs when lookahead finds "errors".  An example is lookahead
  diagnosing an error on statements that are later AREAD (and
  so not technically in error).  Another example is lookahead
  diagnosing an real coding error and then one or more records
  from the lookahead scan later going missing.  This problem can
  have different symptoms (generally statements can disappear
  such as the END statement) and this can result in several
  side-effects such as multiple error messages where normally
  none or only one or two might be expected.
  

Local fix

• APAR PN77424 will sometimes circumvent this problem by stopping
  lookahead from being invoked in some cases where it is not
  really needed.
  Other circumventions are: Use HLASM R1 if available,   or,
  rearrange code to avoid lookahead of statements that would
  cause errors to be diagnosed in lookahead processing.  For
  example statements that are AREAD by a macro that appear to
  be invalid or duplicate sequence symbols to the lookahead
  process.
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: High Level Assembler programs causing        *
  *                 lookahead processing.                        *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: MSGASMA140 is erroneously produced and  *
  *                      the assembler stops processing the      *
  *                      input records.                          *
  *                      MSGASMA007 is produced twice for the    *
  *                      same error. The first occurrence is     *
  *                      before the statement in error. The      *
  *                      occurrence that follows the statement   *
  *                      in error fails to display the duplicate *
  *                      sequence symbol.                        *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION: Apply the PTF provided.                      *
  ****************************************************************
  MSGASMA007 is produced during lookahead processing and the
  message is stored on the lookahead file incorrectly.  This
  results in a premature end to processing on the lookahead file
  and MSGASMA007 occurring twice in the listing.  When messages
  are processed from the lookahead file no parameters are inserted
  in the message.
  

Problem conclusion

• Module ASMA1J has been changed to suppress MSGASMA007 during
  lookahead processing.
  Module ASMA11 has been changed to ensure the lookahead file
  current pointer is correct after an error message has been
  stored. It has also been changed to insert the value of the
  duplicate sequence symbol into the MSGASMA007 when it is
  produced from the lookahead file.
  

Temporary fix

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  * HIPER *
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Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Modules/Macros

• ASMA1J   ASMA11   ASMA9Z
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  HLASM MVS, VM &

• Fixed component ID

  569623400

Applicable component levels

• R120 PSY UN84724

     UP95/12/13 P F512 Ž

• R189 PSY UN84723

     UP95/12/12 P E212 Ž

• R320 PSY UN84722

     UP95/12/14 P 9512 Ž

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