What about looking into using TSSO (see CBT file 404). Then from your MPF you can issue a TSSO command, or just use TSSO instead of MPF.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lionel B. Dyck (TRA Contractor) Mainframe Systems Programmer Enterprise Infrastructure Support (Station 200) (005OP6.3.10) VA OI&T Service Delivery & Engineering -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 7:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] System REXX and UNIX OK, so I'm weird. That should be well known around here <grin>. I'm really getting into System REXX to help replace what CA-OPS/MVS does in our shop (remember we're dying and OPS license expires in Feb 2017). What I am doing is using the MPFLSTxx member of PARMLIB to run a user exit, given to me by Dana Mitchell, called MPF2REXX which sets up some REXX variables then uses the AXREXX facility to run a System REXX program. What would make some coding easier would be if I could do an ADDRESS SYSCALL. Unfortunately, this environment is not on the list of environments available in either (TSO & non-TSO) server. What I'm trying to do is emulate the use of "global" CA-OPS/MVS variables. I.e. variables which can be created in any rule and read / modified / deleted in any other rule. The easiest way that I've thought of is to have a UNIX directory dedicated to this functionality. I could then use the SYSCALL functions to create / read / write / delete files in this directory. The name of the file in the directory would be the same as the CA-OPS/MVS "global" variable. Unfortunately, all that I can think of to do is to use System REXX's axrcmd() function to do a START command to run an STC which is a batch TMP to run yet another REXX command to process the message. Passing all the data to the new STC may be a bit of a bother too. You need to know that I'm stuck on z/OS 1.12 and don't have a lot of the nice new JCL facilities (such as being able to programmatically read JCL symbols from // SET statements). Does anyone have a different idea how to emulate CA-OPS/MVS global variables in System REXX programs, preferably in a non-TSO server? -- Heisenberg may have been here. Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
