On 2020-08-20, at 09:52:18, David Boyes wrote: > > GLOBALV as currently implemented is limited to about 250 chars of useful data > if you use the stack interface, which most of the IBM utilities use values > that can be longer than that. It also has some oddities documented on pg 374 > of the CMS Commands and Utilites Reference. I know about GLOBALV GET/PUT from > REXX variables, but I haven't explored how much overhead is involved in > having arbitrary fields within entries. > > On 8/20/20, 9:48 AM, Rob van der Heij" wrote: > > I may have skipped over that in this thread, but what happened to GLOBALV ? > The value of GLOBALV would be greatly enhanced if GLOBALV could share compound symbols with Rexx.
Generally, Rexx would be greatly improved by any variable sharing facility. But it should be transparent like PROCEDURE EXPOSE; no need for GET or PUT of each member. Imagine ENVIRONMENT EXPOSE <list>. -- gil
