REXX has stream I/O in OMVS but not in TSO·
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 9:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: What does CLIST have that REXX doesn't? (was Interpret or Value - Which is better?) On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:14:51 -0500, Lionel B. Dyck wrote: >For CLIST WRITENR why not use the REXX SAY and then PULL ? > I don't believe that's equivalent. Are you conflating WRITENR and WTOR? But the Rexx analogue of WRITENR is CHAROUT(). On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 09:02:13 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: > ... >CLIST can interact with some external programs interactively. For example, >in REXX I have to put together an entire FTP session and hope it works; > Is that called "modal" interaction? Likewise, CMS EXEC has such behavior; CMS Rexx lacks it. At times, I have written a dual-path EXEC which does ADDRESS ISRREDIT 'MACRO (X)' ... and invokes itself recursively as an Edit profile on success. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
