The only time isfquery() comes into consideration is if your rexx can be issued
from the SDSF NP column against a row on the current SDSF table.
You do this by prefixing the exec name with a % character. You normally have to
expand the NP width to do this (use ARR ? to drive popup panel, or issue a + in
NP).
It sounds like your exec does not do that , so you can safely ignore isfquery().
If you omit ISFCALLS("OFF") then the rexx host environment will exist until
task termination (which may follow very soon after the "exit" statement in your
exec depending on how it was invoked).
Unbounded ISFCALLS gives me an eye-twitch , but that is my problem I suppose.
Rob Scott
Rocket Software
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On Thu, 5 May 2022 16:06:25 +0000, Rob Scott wrote:
>. ...
>ISFQUERY() provides the ability to detect if the current task is already
>connected to SDSF and it can inherit the current session environment data.
>
I'm confused and very naive. Long ago I wrote a SDSF
API Rexx exec to extract spool files, based on (its comments):
See (strangely enough):
Document Number SA22-7670-11
#12.0 "z/OS V1R10.0 SDSF Operation and Customization"
12.0 Using SDSF with the REXX programming language
Alas, that chapter appears not to exist in the current doc.
It's agnostic: operating alike from UNIX shell, IRXJCL,
or as an Edit macro from the command line of an SDSF
display. In the last case it finds the job ID by parsing
ZSCREEN (Pedro Vera's suggestion -- is there a better
way?)
It uses ISFCALLS(ON) but no ISFCALLS(OFF) (should
I expect something bad on that account?)
Lots of ADDRESS SDSF; no ISFQUERY() nor
CONNECT. Am I missing out on much? Is this running
"under SDSF" or otherwise?
--
gil
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