On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 at 01:01, Rupert Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm sure you're right about the supplied TMP(s), but there was the guide to > writing your own. Harry Mernick at Nasty Wetmonster Bank recommended it to > me. I eventually found one in a bin/dumpster and took it home, but it was > lost years later during /the unpleasantness/ :-( > > Roops > p.s. Found > it! > GC28-6764-2_TSO_Guide_to_Writing_a_Terminal_Monitor_Program_or_a_Command_Processor_OS_Release_21.6_Aug1972.pdf > is pretty old, but will have most of the good stuff. > Yes... but. With TSO/E IBM added several new functions that they chose not to document the workings of or provide APIs for. Notably, the REXX interface to TSO/E is not fully documented. The ability to run APF authorized TSO commands or programs is not documented at all. (To be clear, I mean the ability to write your own TMP that does that is not documented.) And there are OCO extensions to several TSO/E control blocks that are not documented at all. So integrating a new language (such as has been proposed for OOREXX) is not possible with the doc and mappings supplied. The Guide to writing a TMP is on Bitsavers, and a lot of it is still valid, but details have changed and the new function is not in it. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
