On Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:16:18 -0500, Charles Mills wrote: >1. If one were writing a Rexx exec to run in an interactive TSO environment, >what would be the best way to clear the screen and make the next SAY write to >the first line of the screen? Calling out to a user-written assembler routine >that used the STLINENO macro? Or ... ? > >2. From a Rexx exec running in interactive TSO, what would be the best way to >determine the number of lines on the terminal? Basically the number of SAYs >that one could do before the user received a *** prompt? > >Any related considerations? > OMVS compatibility? I have put a UNIX directory in my SYSEXAEC concatenation. I could run the same EXEC from ssh, TSO, IRXJCL or as an ISPF Edit macro. Some minor misbehavior which I didn't report; felt like a certain WAD.
With TSO OMVS the termcap is "dumb" despite that a "clear" code works. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
