Since this was suggested, You may wish to join the TSO-REXX and/or ISPF Lists for further assistance.
To join, if you have not done so - ISPF https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=ispf-l TSO REXX http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?TSO-REXX And I agree with others, use the trace function in REXX to help. I like ?i to allow a step through approach. Lizette ;-D > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 5:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: ISREDIT REXX CHANGE no variable substitution > > (Before Lizette deflects this to ISPF-L or TSO-REXX:) > > On 2015-11-05 16:23, Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote: > > I think that it is more of a REXX treatment of strings. > > > > When the REXX instruction: > > CMD = "CHANGE ALL SYSDA " IMPLUNIT > > Is processed, CMD becomes the full string "CHANGE ALL SYSDA SYSDA" > > But in the second invocation, it treats it as two different parameters > > to ISREDIT so Parm #1 is the string "CHANGE ALL SYSDA" and the second is the > string "IMPLUNIT" > > I don't think REXX is performing a variable substitution in this case. > > > > I wonder if it does something differently if you were to use single quotes > > around > the command: > > ' ISREDIT CHANGE ALL SYSDA ' IMPLUNIT > > > Should make no difference; I believe that in both cases Rexx removes the > delimiting > quotes; they are not passed to ISREDIT. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Donald Likens > > Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 5:14 PM > > > > Can anyone explain why the second try does not work as expected? > > > > ISREDIT "MACRO" > At this point, I would add: > trace R /* To see what's happening. */ > signal on novalue /* Traps inadvertently undefined symbols. */ > > > Say "IMPLUNIT" IMPLUNIT > > CMD = "CHANGE ALL SYSDA " IMPLUNIT > > ISREDIT CMD > > > Rather: > address ISREDIT CMD /* For clarity */ > > > Results: > > IMPLUNIT SYSDA > > SYSDA is changed to SYSDA > > > ... but that's not what I'd expect. > > > ISREDIT "MACRO" > > Say "IMPLUNIT" IMPLUNIT > > ISREDIT "CHANGE ALL SYSDA " IMPLUNIT > > > Likewise: > address ISREDIT "CHANGE ALL SYSDA " IMPLUNI /* For clarity */ > > > Results: > > IMPLUNIT SYSDA > > SYSDA is changed to IMPLUNIT > > > But that, the second try, is what I'd expect. > > -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
