ZSCREENI?

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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of 
Jeremy Nicoll [[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2020 5:53 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Using symbolic DD names

On Wed, 30 Dec 2020, at 22:59, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 15:16:49 -0600, Dana Mitchell wrote:

> >Address ispexec 'VGET (ZSCREEN) SHARED'
> >ddname='$TRAP'zscreen
> >'ALLOC FI('ddname') UNIT(3390) DSO(PS) RECFM(V B) LRECL(255) NEW DEL REU'
> >'EXECIO 'trap.0' DISKW 'ddname' (FINI STEM TRAP.'
> >
> I'm mystified.  I've used very much the VGET as you wrote it to fetch an
> entire screen image into a simple Rexx variable.

You couldn't have done.  According to ISPF Dialog Developer's Guide and 
Reference,
zscreen is a 1-byte variable containing:

  Logical screen number up to 32 screens (1-9, A-W)

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