Point-and-shoot (was: Re: Missing source code)

In a recent note, Ed Gould said:

> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:06:05 -0500
>
> Just don't expect a point and shoot to give you a understandable
> messages and codes:-)
>
I hadn't considered it, nor mentioned it. But, now, I don't
see why not. HLASM already produces suitable information in
SYSPRINT. I should be able to put my cursor on a message line
in HLASM's SYSPRINT (point) and press a PF key (shoot). The
macro activated by that key would parse the message ID from the
line, connect to LOOKAT e.g.:

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/os390/lookat.cmd?msgid=asma057e&release=ZOS%2FV1R5

.... fetch the associated page, and display it.

SMOP.

Now if only Lookat would provide fragment/anchor identifiers ('#')
for reason codes.

-- gil
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