On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Glenn Knickerbocker <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike Walter wrote: >> z/VM defaults don't care about the $-sign, but older VM systems and apps >> may care about the @ (character delete) and # (linend) characters. > > But this is running on TSO, no VM involved. > >> Does the comment " /* avoid RXG abend */" help so shed any light on your >> mystery? What's an RXG ABEND? > > That's exactly the mystery! I'm sure it must have been from a message I > saw, but BookManager doesn't find "rxg*" anywhere in the TSO/E, MVS, or > BatchPipes bookshelf.
I very vaguely recall from my days on TSO (like 15 years ago) that I had to wrap the PIPE command in a REXX CLIST to get the environment initialized or things would break when a REXX stage was invoked.
