Nothing in Rexx is part of UNIX®. Are you claiming that syscall is a convenient way to do I/O in REXX? I find ANSI stream I/O to be much cleaner.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2022 12:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Some UNIX file usage questions On Sun, 19 Jun 2022 14:53:31 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > >Stream I/O is not part of UNIX�, > "not" ??? > ... and is available with any ANSI compliant Rexx, e.g., Regina. Alas, > TSO/E REXX is not ANSI compliant > Alas. > ... and IBM only supports stream I/O in Unix shells. I'm not aware of any > convenient Unix facilities for accessing files within REXX. > If you had read further in the thread: Are you thinking of: <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibm.com%2Fdocs%2Fen%2Fzos%2F2.5.0%3Ftopic%3Dprocessing-using-syscall-commands&data=05%7C01%7Csmetz3%40gmu.edu%7C260e8f9a3760419e633f08da5211a85c%7C9e857255df574c47a0c00546460380cb%7C0%7C0%7C637912533037096960%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=CU5LsQgg1mjY2ASiJ9xmETLGyOPI24AEb%2FyAMG3RR2k%3D&reserved=0>? (That page is a mere fraction of what's available.) More at: <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww-40.ibm.com%2Fservers%2Fresourcelink%2Fsvc00100.nsf%2Fpages%2FzOSV2R5sa232283%3FOpenDocument&data=05%7C01%7Csmetz3%40gmu.edu%7C260e8f9a3760419e633f08da5211a85c%7C9e857255df574c47a0c00546460380cb%7C0%7C0%7C637912533037096960%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=fADlcwLV74C3%2FLKY%2FId%2F87E0Gu4I5YoZWJqHdL723Qk%3D&reserved=0 > z/OS Using REXX and z/OS UNIX System Services bpxb600_v2r5.pdf -- 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
