On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:05:46 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: >Yes. Thanks for pointing that out as it is supported by the OS. The only >problem might be if "joe programmer" doesn't have a OMVS segment and >the default segment isn't defined. But I really don't know if BPXWDYN >requires it. Maybe Paul G. knows or someone else. > >On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:24:00 -0600, Big Iron wrote: > >>The BPXWDYN function, available in REXX, allows you to concatenate a list of >>ddnames. >> >>e.g. >> call bpxwdyn "concat ddlist(somedd,dd1,dd2) msg(2)" >>would concat dd1 and dd2 to somedd. >> Doesn't require OMVS (AFAIK; I can't test this); doesn't require TSO; works under IRXJCL; doesn't require Rexx; can be invoked by assembler CALL macro. It even supports concatenating a mixture of Classic and UNIX libraries (OMVS segment likely required for that).
Boundary condition PITA: fails if there are fewer than two catenands in DDLIST. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
