On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 12:33:39 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote: > > > >> address syscall 'ls -l' > >> say rc retval > > > >That's what I would expect. "ls" is not a syscall command (at least in > z/OS 1.13). It is a shell (address SH) command. > > > >List of syscall commands (z/OS 1.13): > > http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/ > BOOKS/bpxzb6a0/3.0?SHELF=all13be9&DT=20100628090654 > >or > > http://preview.tinyurl.com/grqcqc4 > > > My expectation, also. You might get to "ls" with "address SYSCALL spawn > ls -l" > or "address SYSCALL spawn sh -c ls -l". > > (Schematic examples; too simple to work as written.) > > Did wjs intend to imply that bpxwunix works under System Rexx? If so, > that's > the simplest approach. > Whether he intended to or not, my testing shows that it does work. I am, so far, using it to emulate the CA-OPS/MVS "global variable" facility. Things such as: stdin.0=1 stdin.1='value' stdout.0=0 /* not needed */ stderr.0=0 /* not needed */ rc=bpxwunix("cat /dev/fd0 >|/home/AXRUSER/vars/VARNAME",stdin.,stdout.,stderr.) /* set "VARNAME" to 'value' and stdin.0=0 stdout.0=0 stderr.0=0 rc=bpxunix("cat /home/AXRUSER/vars/VARNAME",stdin.,stdout.,stderr.) if stdout.0 = 0 Then /* failed or not set */ variable='VARIABLE' Else /* succeeded */ variable=stdout.1 /* ignore any extra lines */ Lots more error checking omitted. > > -- gil > > -- 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
