I'll correct my earlier misstatement.  You did not say you were the client;
merely "-n-house".

On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 10:41:25 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:

>The ECB is not in the Rexx. It is in MVS-owned storage IIRC. 
>
I believe ECBs routinely occupy user-owned storage.

>-----Original Message-----
>>    ...
>>... Well, the actual parameter passed by the Rexx is continuously accessible 
>>to the Assembler. It is of course possible to access any Rexx variable from 
>>assembler, but I see no need. If I understand your question, the answer is No.
>>  
I took "continuously accessible" to mean accessible by concurrent tasks even 
after
the Assembler returns to Rexx.

>That depends on the AFAIK undocumented behavior of Rexx storage
>management.  What happens if Rexx compacts variable storage, thereby
>moving an ECB?  Rexx spurns concurrency.
>
"ECB" for example.  The Devil's advocate was envisioning using the parameter
passed by Rexx as working storage.  Which is OK until returning to Rexx.

-- 
gil

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