On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:21:18 -0400, George Shedlock wrote:
>Gentle Listers;
>
>I am trying to write a Rexx routine that takes in 3 arguments. First is DSN,
>second is Member name, third is a string of text. The string of text is the
>concatenation of lines delimited by a ";". (ex. "line1;line2;line3").
>
>This code fails:
>
>Write_Member:
> MyDSN = ARG(1)
> MyMember = ARG(2)
> MyArg = ARG(3)
> outstem.=0
> dsnname = MyDSN || '(' || MyMember || ')'
> Say 'The dsname is: {'dsnname'}'
> do forever
> parse var MyArg thisword ';' MyArg
> if thisword='' then leave
> thisword = Left(thisword,80)
> parse value outstem.0+1 thisword with t outstem.t =1 outstem.0 .
> end
> Say 'Number of lines written: 'outstem.0
> "ALLOC DA('"dsnname"') F(Pdsout) OLD REUSE"
> "EXECIO * DISKW Pdsout (STEM outstem. FINIS"
> "FREE F(Pdsout)"
> Return
>
I can't spot a problem. Try it with "trace R". That's often illuminating.
The "parse" is cute; I hadn't thought of that of that as a way of
combining 3 instructions to one.
Hmmm. What terminates EXECIO? Try:
"EXECIO" outstem.0 "DISKW Pdsout (STEM outstem. FINIS"
>System abend code E37, reason code 00000004.
-- gil
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