(With a belated admonition to the OP to select a meaningful subject. My experience is that any subject containing the word "question" is suspect. Don't say, "I have a question." Simply ask your question.)
On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:48:23 +0100, Peter Hunkeler wrote: >I'm curious to understand whay you want to run this rexx as a shell script as >oposed to a simple batch tso step. > >I don't see the benefit, only drawbacks > It can be a matter of familiarity; the same trait that impels users with other backgrounds to invoke UNIX services with BPXBATCH in cases where there is no visible benefit, only drawbacks. RECEIVE is extraordinarily ill-suited to automation: o The user has no a priori control over which spool file will be RECEIVEd. o The user must be present to reply to a prompt. VM/CMS does somewhat better: o CMS has the RDRLIST utility, similar to SDSF. o Within RDRLIST, the user can issue a line command: RECEIVE / (options) # "/" denotes the spool ID of the current line. o Or, from the command line (like READY prompt): RECEIVE spoolID (options) Options may include: - target file ID - REPLACE/NOREPLACE, etc (Much like what must be supplied to PROMPT from TSO RECEIVE.) TSO developers (are there any such?) would do well to learn from CMS. How about: RECEIVE [JOB(jobID[.dsid])] [REPLY('reply-string')] -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN