On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 07:35:10 +0000, Martin Packer wrote: > >I think the original question was about using REXX in an E15 exit (or >equivalently an E35). > >This is something I've contemplated doing in the past but the required >machinery is beyond me (or at least my patience). :-) > >I'm also not sure about performance and function : If each pass through >the exit (once per record) causes a fresh REXX environment to be created, >with fresh variables it's not good: > >It would be expensive. > Some, though certainly not all, of this could be accomplished by connecting a POSIX pipe from the output of the Rexx script to SORTIN. It might suffice for the OP's need.
>Part of the charm of a REXX exit would be passing variables between >invocations of the exit. > >On the upside there are lots of possibilities if a REXX exit - whether as >a sample or as product function - were created. > Such Rexx support would be valuable not only for DFSort but for many other z/OS utilities. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
