On Friday 05 June 2009, Klein, Kenneth wrote: > I like the REXXTRY program. It should prove very useful. But I am > still disappointed in my efforts to run showzos in batch mode. I'd > like to run it every week and keep a few months of generations on > hand just for debugging and historical reasons. But when I run it in > batch, I only get a few lines of output. When run in foreground, I > get tons of output. What am I missing here?? TIA
I'm not familiar with showzos. Is this one of those things that needs to be invoked from IKJEFT01 in batch because it's using TSO features? Cheers, Bob - - - - Bob Woodside Woodsway Consulting, Inc. www.woodsway.com > > > Ken Klein > Sr. Systems Programmer > [email protected] > 502-495-5000 x7011 > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Michel Castelein > Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 6:23 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: CLIST equivalent to REXX STRIP > > "Gilbert Saint-Flour" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:<[email protected]>... > > > On Thursday 04 June 2009 16:56, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > > >>I'm trying to find a way to translate this REXX instruction to a > > >>CLIST equivalent ... > > > > > > Why? > > > > I wrote a bunch of CLISTs until I started writing REXX execs in > > 1991, but > > I > > > wrote very few CLISTs since then. I wish a REXX exec could start > > with > > PROC, > > > like a CLIST can, so from time to time I write a CLIST just because > > of > > PROC. > > > BTW, this is the less-complex way I found to simulate REXX STRIP in > > a > > CLIST: > > SET XXX = &STR(' AA-BB ') > > REXXTRY RETURN STRIP(&XXX) > > SET XXX=&STR(&RESULT) > > > > And this is the pure-REXX equivalent : > > > > XXX = ' AA-BB ' > > XXX = STRIP(&XXX) > > > > REXXTRY is described here: > > http://gsf-soft.com/Freeware/REXXTRY.shtml > > > > -- > > Gilbert Saint-Flour > > GSF Software > > http://gsf-soft.com/ > > IMHO, there is indeed no CLIST equivalent. > &STR prevents the value ' AA-BB ' to be treated as an arithmetic > expression, but it also prevents the removal of the leading and > trailing blanks. > A kind of Catch-22 condition. > > Michel Castelein > z/OS instructor & consultant > http://www.geocities.com/michelcastelein/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >- 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
