I agree with the STORAGE function being required for SYSREXX to be useful.
Jon L. Veilleux [email protected] (860) 636-2683 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Why would I use System REXX as shown in the sample? (was: RO command query) On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:38:36 +0100, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) <[email protected]> wrote: Samples are just that. They aren't indicative of the best way to do something. But good samples are better than bad samples. :-) >What (advantage) am I missing? > Being able to execute the process from an operator console as if it were a built-in operator command. Even if you can't get onto TSO. I'm talking in general terms here... not in reference to that sample in particular since I didn't look at it closely. >Is anybody using System REXX? If so, what for? > Not really.. only played with it. I am using a "EXTSO" exec to be able to issue a TSO command from the console. This is same thing Ed Jaffe was doing with TSOCMD (I think that is what he called it) ... or TSOX. Search the archives. It could be used for health checks. There have been some SHARE sessions on this. Personally, until there is a supported / alternate "STORAGE" function that I can use, I probably won't be doing much with it. Console automation packages can be used instead. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you think you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail immediately. Thank you. Aetna ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
