On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 13:08:44 -0400, Tom Conley wrote: >On 6/8/2020 12:56 PM, Frank Myers wrote: >> Can ISPF services, such as panel display, be called from Python? I know they >> can be called from rexx & TSO clists. > >Try using Python's equivalent of CALL ISPLINK (use the COBOL and PL/I >examples in the ISPF doc). > Would you expect this to work for ISPF variable sharing? It depends strongly on Python's storage model.
UNIX is poor at variable sharing but pipes or command substitution can be used as an alternative. I doubt that ISPF is POSIX pipe-savvy. POSIX shell or bash sorely lacks an analogue of Rexx ADDRESS SYSCALL 'pipe'. Various desktop ISPF-lookalikes use sockets to communicate with their macros. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
