A subcommand environment is certainly important, but it doesn't provide an eauivalent to DATA/DATA PROMPT.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Phil Smith III [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2023 6:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CLIST but not REXX Bob Bridges wrote, in part: >2) The ability to interact live with subsystems. In CLIST I can start an> FTP session and interact with it, grabbing FTP's responses and deciding on> the fly what command to issue next. In REXX I have to queue up an entire> session, then call FTP and decide afterward how it went, just like a batch> job. I've never found a way around this. The Rexx answer to that would be a subcommand environment, but of course that requires the thing it's calling to work with such an environment, whereas it sounds like CLIST is just better-integrated into the OS, which makes sense. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
