One more thing to remember. System Rexx is an Authorized environment, while IKJTSO00 is not. THis is a big difference.
ITschak ITschak Mugzach Z/OS, ISV Products and Application Security & Risk Assessments Professional On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 8:31 PM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Holst, Jeffrey A <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > My manager asked me a question today about System REXX and I did not have > > an immediate answer for her. > > > > As I did some research it seemed that System REXX was not so much a > change > > in or an extension to the REXX language as it was new environment in > which > > REXX could run. > > > > Am I understanding this correctly? I figured the folks on this list would > > be able to tell me if I were on target or completely missing it. > > > > I think that's true. It is basically the REXX you can use when run run > IKJEFT01 (batch TSO program), but with more restrictions on the TSO > environment and with a few extra commands for system interfacing (in > particular AXRCMD('os command') and AXRWTO(message) ). The main > documentation is here: > http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/ > com.ibm.zos.v2r2.ieaa800/systemrexx.htm > > My main complaint is no ADDRESS SYSCALL. But I can use BPXWUNIX to do some > things. It's just not as efficient due to the spawning of a new UNIX > address space. > > > > > > > Jeffrey Holst > > Systems Administator Senior > > Technology and Operations, Shared Services > > Whitehall Service Center 2 > > PNC Bank > > > > > -- > Heisenberg may have been here. > > Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
