On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:18:58 -0500, Scott Barry wrote:
>On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:37:12 +0200, Michael Knigge wrote:
>>//*
>>//* IMAGINE FOO WILL OUTPUT AN IP-ADDRESS - BUT THE ADDRESS
>>//* IS OF COURSE NOT KNOWN...
>>//*
>>//STEP01 EXEC PGM=FOO
>>//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
>>//*
>>//* NOW I NEED TO EXECUTE A COMMAND THAT CONTAINS
>>//* THE IP-ADDRESS
>>//STEP02 EXEC PGM=BA,PARM='PING the.ip.addr.here'
>>
>A REXX or CLIST EXEC (or many other programming options) that parses your
>SYSPRINT (passed from the first step in a dataset, not SYSOUT -- or put to a
>dataset, the "gener" to SYSOUT if someone needs this info), which in turn
>generates a temp (or permanent, transient/temporary - for restart purposes)
>dataset containing your PING (or whatever) command which gets executed in a
>subsequent step.
>
<EVANGELISM> This is extraorinarily easy to do in z/OS Unix
with a shell command using command substitution:
PING "$(FOO)"
Consider that as an alternative.</EVANGELISM>
How about:
//STEP02 EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01
//SYSTSIN DD *
PING -
// DD DISP=OLD,DSN=*.STEP01.SYSPRINT
-- gil
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