TSO SYSPROC is the only case I know of where /* REXX */ is required.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Phil Smith III [li...@akphs.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 10:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PL/I vs. JCL Bob Bridges wrote: >Purely by the way, but I've never really understood why so many REXX modules I see start like this: > /* REXX */ <snip> I think (a) it's documented that way in some places; (b) Some environments may even require that; (c) that's how some/many examples have it; and (d) it's bizarre, because these all work in TSO: /* Rexx */ /* This rexx program. */ /* This is (rexx) */ /* This is not(rexx)s */ /* Thisisrexxyep */ but /* This is a program */ does not. So something is parsing the entire first line, looking for the leading "/*" and four letters "rexx" in a row, case-insensitive. Bizarre. Having grown up in VM, I'd never even thought about it, other than knowing that I needed the word "rexx" in the first line in TSO. (On VM, just the leading "/*" is sufficient.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
