BPXWDYN may support concatenating FB and VB, but ISPF and TSO don't. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר
________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2023 5:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Checking status of multiple datasets in CLIST and REXX On Fri, 29 Dec 2023 21:13:17 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >In my case there is a CLIST effectively called from the READY prompt, so the >TSO environment should be fully initialized. > >The reason that it's CLIST is so I can use TSOLIB inline. > TSO can CALL BPXWDYN, subject to an onerous 100-byte PARM limit. In one case, for a mixed concatenation, I used a sequence of ALLOCATE followed by a single CALL BPXWDYN 'CONCAT ...' CONCAT requires at least two operands; fails with just one. -- 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
