You need the LINKMVS or ATTCHMVS environment. The syntax is
ADDRESS environment command
The first word of the command is the program name. Subsequent words are the
names of parameter. Example:
foo = MYPROGRAM
bar = MYPARM MYDDNAMES
myparm = 'TRACE=NO'
myddnames = 'ALTPRINTALTIN'
ADDRESS LINKMVS FOO BAR
If novalue is enabled then you will need quotes (' or ") in the first two
statements.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Bob
Bridges [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2021 2:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Syntax for calling a program from REXX with parm
I know I've done this before, but I'm having trouble doing something that most
of you will say should be simple. I have some JCL that executes a program in
batch, and I want to create a REXX that does it in the foreground - allocates
the datasets, runs the program, then fetches the output and displays it in
View. The program requires something in the PARM, and I'm having trouble
remembering the syntax for that. Here's what I've tried:
+-----------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+
+ call '<program>,<parm>' | Error running <exec>, line <nn>:
Routine not found |
+-----------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+
+ address LINK '<program>,<parm>' | RC -3 (routine not found)
|
+-----------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+
+ '<program>','<parm>' | Error running <exec>, line <nn>:
Unexpected "," or ")" |
+ address LINK '<program>','<parm>' |
|
+-----------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+
+ call '<program> <parm>' | Error running <exec>, line <nn>:
Incorrect call to routine |
+ call '<program>' '<parm>' |
|
+ call '<program>','<parm>' |
|
+-----------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+
+ '<program> <parm>' | Program returns RC and complains it
can't see the PARM. |
+ '<program>,<parm>' |
|
+ '<program>' '<parm>' |
|
+ address LINK '<program> <parm>' |
|
+ address LINK '<program>' '<parm>' |
|
+-----------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+
Unless I go to LINKMVS or LINKPGM (and I don't know what those are for), I
think I've used up all the possible combinations. What am I missing?
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