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"You can invoke a REXX exec in the TSO/E address space in several ways. To invoke an exec in TSO/E foreground, use the TSO/E EXEC command processor to either implicitly or explicitly invoke the exec and you must have ddname GRXBIMG allocated." Joe On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 7:54 AM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > What does that mean and why do you say so? It's not a DD that you need to > use REXX in TSO, because IKJEFT01 works fine without it. It's not SYSPROC > or SYSECEC, which would make sense. And it has a prefix not associated with > REXX or any other z/OS component. > > If it were indeed a DD statement that the authors believed to be necessary > to run REXX in TSO, wouldn't they have explained what to code on it or at > least used it in sample JCL? > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf > of Joe Monk [joemon...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020 8:46 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: What is GRXBIMG > > Its some REXX DD that has to be allocated before you can run in TSO. > > Joe > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 7:25 AM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > > > Idle speculation: it's the file name of s bit map meant to go into the > > manual and the text was supposed to say SYSPROC. > > > > > > -- > > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > > ________________________________________ > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf > > of Charles Mills [charl...@mcn.org] > > Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 6:36 PM > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Subject: Re: What is GRXBIMG > > > > A more interesting question might be "what happens if I do allocate it?" > > and at least for a simple test with ALLOC FI(GRXBIMG) DA(*) the answer > > seems to be "nothing special." > > > > What might this be a relic of? GRX does not seem to be a component > prefix. > > I could be wrong. > > > > Here's my theory: a developer whose initials were GR added some sort of > > debug output: GRXBIMG = George Rothwell's Extended Byte Image or > something > > like that. It somehow made it into the product documentation. Astounding > > that it has hidden there in plain sight for over twenty years. > > > > I do not see the reference in the 1991 MVS/REXX Reference: > > > > > http://secure-web.cisco.com/1msRUVNTCVPM6al9HyShyRDCsU6ONoAtBXbZbF7GJI59Gj89EEVWxcw_sygtcmoro-Imjk1U0ivgPs56TezTZL7Ba2WK1xNb6Yt-8QhSSHtfKcjpi4120Lk2HeTC2GP_IBVSjpDZ2aER63S8t_e86YAeMWGEkxm-0kO-Skka5_F7n-9WQmSxHedXSSqNjPMCsTlIWQCC56yaSIKzebhds42QUBcHC9zlx-UMb5yTFa2oIWvz0WrXbUGm2BF2bLLjlEhdCanddWLM-oXiVALYstYbU2hWeGN7BMRxMcJFPaMNmBxidchg_eoJCTNNqeCY_q74Di2uFtY4YQx2Y89PNJ8tAou1-jxWUZ1teZbByjfqzH8hUIH2VQUbpBvenpMTw1T4CneetfQe7qvCqp5o2OSE52nYpPrr4XGXLb1VNGnwTSrzLKz3fW4A6bNBpdw-r/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bitsavers.org%2Fpdf%2Fibm%2F370%2FTSO_Extensions%2FSC28-1883-4_TSO_Extensions_Version_2_Procedures_Langage_MVS_REXX_Reference_Aug1991.pdf > > > > Charles > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > > Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 9:16 AM > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Subject: Re: What is GRXBIMG > > > > On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 07:00:19 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: > > > > >I must have time on my hands. I just dragged out the OS/390 V2R8 CDs > from > > 1999, and the sentence is there verbatim. > > > > > >It's the only hit on GRXBIMG on CD #1. > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > > >From: Steve Smith > > >Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 6:37 AM > > > > > >It's still there in V2R4... and I am appalled that I've been running > REXX > > >incorrectly for decades now. > > > > > I submitted a (slightly snarky) RCF on this: > > > > Hello, MHVRCFs, > > > > In: > > > https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.ikja300/tsorun.htm > > • /OS 2.2.0 > > • z/OS TSO/E > > • z/OS TSO/E REXX Reference > > • Using REXX in different address spaces > > > > I read: "... you must have ddname GRXBIMG allocated." > > > > I'm curious. Does: > > //GRXBIMG DD DUMMY > > suffice, or must it be a PDS(E)? > > > > What error is reported if the programmer fails to > > allocate GRXBIMG? > > > > Is this covered in M&C? > > > > Thanks, > > gil > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
