On 12 October 2016 at 13:56, Kirk Wolf <k...@dovetail.com> wrote: > You are correct: you don't need an LE environment to use the BPXxxxx kernel > service calls.
Indeed. I do it from non-LE assembler all the time. > REXX doesn't have/use an LE environment AFAIK. I don't know > much about the System REXX environment, but I would assume kernel service > calls would work fine. The REXX SYSCALL environment uses these, so I'm > not sure why it wouldn't work. I think the problem will come if there's a question of file access permissions. For that the kernel has to ask RACF/ACF2/TSS, and that requires a userid, which may not always be present, or may not have a UNIX UID, GID, etc. Depends on how it's invoked, I think. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
