I would write a function package to do all of those little things that are 
impossible in REXX but trivial in HLASM. 


-- 
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of 
Charles Mills <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2026 6:16 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Two TSO terminal I/O from Rexx questions


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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?

Thanks,
Charles

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