Tony, z/OS TSO Rexx has no pipes, only CMS has them.
Not that we don’t WANT them, but IBM so far has chosen not to port them to z/OS. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 6:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: REXX - Interpret or Value - Which is better? I do most of my rexx on VM, but on VM we have a method to directly read and update a callers variables (as long as both are REXX) using the pipe stages VAR and VARLOAD. Just looking at the z/OS manuals, it looks like you have the same option in z/OS. Tony Thigpen Bob Bridges wrote on 9/14/21 5:42 PM: > I've inherited responsibility for a huge REXX app that uses that technique to > pass many values back and forth between external routines. Each module has > two routines, one for packing up a list of variables and another for > unpacking them at the other end. I find it difficult to understand, but if > I'd had to write the thing from scratch maybe I wouldn't have come up with a > better way to do it, either. > > --- > Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 > > /* The difference between theory and practice is wider in practice > than it is in theory. -C J Date */ > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On > Behalf Of Martin Packer > Sent: Monday, September 13, 2021 10:16 > > My main use case for interpret is passing back a string with stem variable > assignments from a procedure. Then the caller of the procedure interprets the > string - which has semicolons to separate the assignment statements. > > I don't much like it but it seems the best I can do. -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
