Have you tried under TSO BATCH with or without ISPF libraries (and I am thinking the ISF libraries may need to be included in the JCL).
Lizette -----Original Message----- >From: "Barkow, Eileen" <[email protected]> >Sent: Mar 3, 2016 9:26 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: rexx and tso alllocate > >I am currently converting some SDSF BATCH routines to SDSF REXX and I am >finding that things do not always work the same when >invoking the clist from ISPF 1.6 and invoking it from batch with IRXJCL. >option 1.6 runs under TSO/E and IRXJCL does not. >so far, I have encountered differences with the ISFOWNER settings, putting >quotes on datasetnames used for ISFPRTDSNAME, >and the use of the TSO/E SYSDSN routine is not allowed with IRXJCL. > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Lizette Koehler >Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2016 11:09 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: rexx and tso alllocate > >If you search on JES2DISK by John McKown, >https://gist.github.com/JohnArchieMckown/b27747d0c4750a258997 > >This is a very nice example of extracting from SPOOL to DASD or other. > >Lizette > > >-----Original Message----- >>From: Tim Brown <[email protected]> >>Sent: Mar 3, 2016 9:06 AM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: rexx and tso alllocate >> >> >>No I havent will research >> >>Thanks >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >>Behalf Of Lizette Koehler >>Sent: Thursday, 03 March, 2016 11:04 AM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: rexx and tso alllocate >> >> >>** THIS IS AN EXTERNAL EMAIL ** Use caution before opening links / >>attachments. Never supply UserID/PASSWORD information. >> >> >>If you are a jes2 shop, have you looked at the ISFEXEC (SDSF REXX) to do some >>of this work? >> >>Lizette >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Tim Brown <[email protected]> >>>Sent: Mar 3, 2016 8:31 AM >>>To: [email protected] >>>Subject: Re: rexx and tso alllocate >>> >>>Briefly, I have a home grown process that takes selected output files from >>>the Jes2 spool via an external writer and writes them to a combined dataset >>>with separators. I then read the results via REXX and create individual >>>files that are processed via TXT2PDF to create pdfs. Some of the resulting >>>pdfs were not taking the width of the page and I thought it was related to >>>files whose actual lrecl was quite less than the lrecl of 300 that was used >>>to capture all files originally. That was not the case, it was the zoom >>>parameter on the font statement, by making it 100 it fit the page perfectly. >>> >>>I am ok for now , but since I started this thread, how do others create >>>PDF's from Jes2 spool output? >>> >>>Appreciated as always! >>> >>>Tim >>> >>> >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] >>>On Behalf Of Bill Woodger >>>Sent: Wednesday, 02 March, 2016 4:16 AM >>>To: [email protected] >>>Subject: rexx and tso alllocate >>> >>> >>>** THIS IS AN EXTERNAL EMAIL ** Use caution before opening links / >>>attachments. Never supply UserID/PASSWORD information. >>> >>> >>>Joel Ewing has made a valid point about programs potentially having LRECL >>>expectations. COBOL is good for that. >>> >>>Tim Brown is silent on what he actually wants to do this for. Until then >>>it's difficult to suggest something concrete. Ditch the blocksize has been >>>said, making the LRECL smaller has no obvious benefit has been said. Just to >>>add that the LRECL can always be "overridden" on the DD for a subsequent >>>reference. >>> >>> >>>On Wednesday, 2 March 2016 08:24:22 UTC, Ted MacNEIL wrote: >>>> Why not just create a VBA file with a very long LRECL and not worry about >>>> it at all? Longer LRECLs don't introduce any more ov‎eReader than short >>>> ones. >>>> >>>> -teD >>>> Original Message >>>> From: Kjell Holmborg >>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 02:54 >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >>>> Subject: Re: rexx and tso alllocate >>>> >>>> One suggestion might be that your rexx program writes records to a stem >>>> variable and you could keep track of the longest record and then just >>>> before writing the contents of the stem variables to the dataset you do a >>>> TSO Allocate with the longest record as a variable to the ALLOCATE command. >>>> >>>> /Kjell >>>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
