On Fri, 12 Jul 2024 16:21:57 +0000, Schmitt, Michael wrote: > ... >My questions are: > >1. Why such an obscure method of saying that the SYSEXEC is sequential? Why >not, oh I don't know, process SYSEXEC as sequential if the organization of >SYSEXEC is sequential? > It would have been better.
>2. If it must be that it uses the PARM value to know that it is sequential, >why does it use a member name of x'00'? Can you think of ANY other user-facing >utility that works this way? I mean, something users put in JCL, not some >program API. > This has long been known in the lore as an undocumented consequence of the assembler interface to REXX. IBM chose to add misleading description rather than user-friendly code. > ... >This makes no sense. The entire topic is about running IRXJCL in MVS batch, so >you're never going to see 20021. It should document the return code you will >get. If it wants to explain what you might get if running IRXJCL a different >way, then *that* should be in the Notes. And in the doc i read "either a single x'00' character or a 2 to 8 character name consisting of x'00' characters." Isn't that a needlessly roundabout paraphrase of "a 1 to 8 character name consisting of x'00' characters"? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
