I have the assembler program ILRBIRD. Guess what it draws on the screen.
"Confidentially doc, I am the wabbit." Bugs Bunny Sent with Proton Mail secure email. 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
