Ah yes. I never said it would be easy. Harry had the advantage that he'd already written fullscreen extensions to TEST, including browse and a disassembler, then he got the same extensions working with TESTAUTH, so I assumed he'd filled in the gaps.
He'd originally trained as an accountant, would you believe. He had hand-written notes on the authorised TMP and its control blocks, but he never interfaced with Rexx, except as far as TEST already did. Roops On Sat, 21 Jun 2025, 06:37 Tony Harminc, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
