On 2017-12-22, at 11:06:36, David Staudacher wrote:
> Ref: z/OS Using REXX and z/OS UNIX System Services Version 2 Release 3
> "Conventional MVS parameter list"
> "What deficiencies do you see?"
> http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.bpxb600/retparml.htm
> ... was indeed one of the better ones I found, but there are still many
> inaccuracies. It stays, for example, "The parm string has the format of
> either halfword length followed by the parameter string or a null-terminated
> parameter string. My findings, using a z/OS 1.13 system, were that the
> "halfword length followed by the parameter string" format doesn't work. The
> "parm string" *must be* null terminated with no halfword length prefix. I
> doubt that's changed even in the latest z/OS. Nor does it clearly describe
> exactly what the correct "parm string" is for DSNAME information retrieval.
> The manual mentions 6 "request types": ALLOC, CONCAT, DECONCAT, FREE, INFO
> and OUTDES. Only by trial and error was I able to figure out that the
> correct parm string is "INFO DD(<ddname>)". The manual calls DD a "keyword"
> for information retrieval and the diagram you reference shows keywords coming
> *after* the parm string, yet the DD "keyword" is in fact a necessary part of
> the parm string itself.
> Also, the keyword used for DSNAME retrieval in all the examples is "RTDSN",
> which you also mention, but in the manual under "Requesting Allocation
> Information":
> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.bpxb600/bpx1rx78.htm
> ... it says "INRTDSN", which is in fact the one that works - not "RTDSN".
>
This might merit both SR and RCF. But supply concrete examples of
the misbehavior.
> I've never submitted an RCF (not even sure what it is). How does one do
> that?
>
Can't find it from your web link. But from the PDF:
z/OS Using REXX and z/OS UNIX System Services
Version 2 Release 3
How to send your comments to IBM
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(More instructions trimmed.)
-- gil
