Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/18/2005
at 12:10 PM, Steve Comstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
But I have trouble accomplishing the same work in
a REXX exec.
REXX does not support the TSO stack to the extent that CLIST does. The
best that you can do is to queue or stack subcommands before you call
EDIT, or to split your logic into two parts and queue a subcommand to
invoke the second part under EDIT.
Right, and I was taking the first tack; I had a logic
error, but Mark's suggestions fixed that.
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/18/2005
at 12:51 PM, Steve Comstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Since we are not under ISPF, edit macros are not an option.
What Dave wrote has nothing to do with ISPF. Your message was about
TSO EDIT, and that's the EDIT he was referring to; edit macros *are*
available to you.
Huh? Edit macros are available under TSO EDIT? You mean
like ISREDIT? I don't think so. So where can I read
about TSO EDIT edit macros? I don't see any discussion
about them in the TSO Commands reference doc.
[OK, so wait; I do a search on "macro" and come up with a
reference to the TSO Customization doc; a search there
yields 347 matches! But these are mostly macros for
modifying various TSO, RACF, VTAM, etc. facilities; so
I run a search on "edit macro"; this returns 33 matches,
28 of which are for the IKJEDIT macro which allows the
installer to change or add data set type attributes;
the remaining five have to do with the Information
Center Facility. None of this is useful to me, where
I am creating a REXX exec to build student data sets
based on existing files and a single input parameter.
I have no control over installing or modifying TSO
in customer locations, nor do I want to have such.
This is for labs teaching applications programmers.
The stuff in this doc is not edit macros in the
sense I find practical; is this what you were
alluding to?]
Kind regards,
-Steve Comstock
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