I have the assembler program ILRBIRD.  Guess what it draws on the screen.


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On Thursday, June 18th, 2026 at 10:22 AM, Schmitt, Michael 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Our site has a TSO CLEAR command that "clears the 3270 display screen and 
> places the cursor at row1, column 1". The site documentation says "The CLEAR 
> TSO command processor is provided from the SHARE tape.".
> 
> CLEAR may be an alias for another program name.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
> Charles Mills
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2026 5:16 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Two TSO terminal I/O from Rexx questions
> 
> 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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