I got your answer just as I was starting to reading Chapter 21 --
Syntax of a Pipeline....
And it said, "...CALLPIPE are issued from programs in a pipeline...."
So that explains the -3.
I think I need a helmet, knee pads and elbow pads. It looks like
I'm going to be into full contact learning by bashing into things.
Thank you for your answer. It confirmed (as did the manual) what
I was suspecting but not understanding the what or why.
Tomorrow I will invoke the Pipe differently.... (I was trying to
make as few changes as possible to the stage I'm testing).
On 8/10/22 18:10, Donald Russell wrote:
Are you issuing CALLPIPE from your exec? CALLPIPE is used by a pipe stage,
it’s not a cms/cp command.
Instead of describing your code, can you show us?
Are you doing something like:
Pipe rexx (misslfs exec) parm | …
That will run the exec file as a pipe stage, you can verify that with parse
source … if the last field is “?” you’re in a pipe environment.
If you’re running mislfs from the cms command line then the exec is being
run in the cms environment and CALLPIPE makes no sense in that context.
On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 14:46 Steve Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
Let's start over because this will get confused if we don't.
My REXX code has a comment line at the start.
Driver EXEC (REXX) invokes, via a CALL, MISSLFS passing a
variable to it which SAY in MISSLFS shows it got.
MISSLFS EXEC *was* copied from MISSLFS REXX so I can experiment
with it (yes, in the environment it normally runs in it is a STAGE).
CALLPIPE in MISSLFS EXEC terminates with (-3).
I can't seem to figure out why this is.
Doesn't -3 mean a problem with the environment?
Any suggestions for this?
Steve Thompson
On 8/10/22 11:35, John P. Hartmann wrote:
Apart from what else can be said, your program is interpreted
as EXEC2, not REXX. It lacks the leading comment to identify
it as such.
On 8/10/22 17:30, Steve Thompson wrote:
Hi. I'm re-sending this because of somehow getting
unsubscribed.... And issuing commands to change some default
settings. etc.
So I have not seen anything from the list since 26JUN22.
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I'm trying to test some code to figure out why I'm not getting
the results I think I should be getting from CHOP.
The code is being used by another routine, and I thought it
would work for what I need, so I modified the CHOP stage and
I'm not getting what I need.
So I built a "driver" REXX to invoke the routine that is using
'CALLPIPE filefast xxx xxx *' ,
and this is returning (-3).
Here is my driver:
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TRACE "F"
call 'MISSLFS' 'LX1000 /library'
xx=RC
SAY "CALL returned RC="xx
EXIT xx
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I'm doing this from the command line in CMS. So I tried
ADDRESS COMMAND (immediately before the call) and still get (-3).
I've been scanning the CMS Pipelines UGDE & REF and I am not
seeing what is wrong with this.
Could someone point me at the problem, or what page of what
manual I should be looking at?
I'm just getting started with CMS pipes and the VM List folks
pointed me to this list....
Regards,
Steve Thompson
