The submit() function is Unix System Services, not REXX. Will there ever be a day when OMVS is cleanly integrated with all of the legacy MVS facilities?
-- 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: Wednesday, June 26, 2024 10:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Using environment variables in JCL and USS On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 01:55:39 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >> It's absurd that the various SUBMIT commands, TSO, ISPF, Rexx, >> and OMVS enforce FB,80, > >REXX? > <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=functions-submit> >As for ISPF, it uses TSO SUBMIT, and that's where the fix has to go. Is there >an RFE? > . In a sense, ISPF is worse than TSO. TSO fails wit a message and a return code if attributes are wrong. ISPF *quietly* truncates. I consider that data loss. IIRC, TFM formerly mentioned the F,80 restriction. I no longer see it. Did they fix it? I suspect it took much resource to enhance the C/I, then ehey didn't correspondingly fix SUBMIT. Conway's Law. -- 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
