In <[email protected]>, on
11/15/2011
   at 04:56 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]>
said:

>Ok, I must be confusing (having too much decaying braincells :D )
>STOW with something else which can destroy a PDS / PDSE directory if
>used incorrectly.

 //       EXEC  PGM=IEBGENER
 //SYSUT1   DD  *
 FOO
 //SYSUT2   DD  DSN=SYS1.MACLIB,DISP=OLD
 //SYSIN    DD  DUMMY
 //SYSPRINT DD  SYSOUT=A

used to destroy the directory; the equiovalent in Rexx would as well.

>Agreed, this is why other callable services are available to Rexx or
>Assembler, Cobol, etc.

No. ISPF services are available for ISPF dialogs. I'm not aware of any
equivalent callable services for non-ISPF applications in Rexx.
 
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