> On Jun 16, 2019, at 10:27 AM, Rob van der Heij wrote:
>
> On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 at 17:58, Phil Smith III wrote:
>
>> Gil wrote:
>>> No, you're thinking of ISPF.
>>
>> As infrequently as possible!
>
> LOL
>
> You will not believe how proud I felt when I finally got one John’s FMTP
> XEDIT macro working on TSO (it actually is tri-langual) with a bit of
> plumbing to concatenate my own PDS to the existing ones allocated. I really
> wonder how z/OS folks manage things when even the simplest things require a
> very determined mind and several attempts.
>
I have a similar impression of Pipelines. An example I may have used
before — in POSIX shell:
{ stage1; stage2; stage3; } | stage4
I found an analogous example in one of the Plunging, IIRC. It has
STAGESEPs, and connectors, and a FANIN. Ouch! It might just be
dialect: “;” is a STAGESEP; “{ … }” is a FANIN, and the connections
are implied by the position of the stages.
I know; Pipelines is better for concurrent stages. I’ve used it successfully,
always with the manual open before me (even though it can’t employ multiple
cores — but could it on TSO?)
— gil
