On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 11:08:38 -0500, Steve Horein wrote: > >Not being very fluent in 'nix, shouldn't there be a way to set/export >variables in memory, avoiding the I/O with reading to/from a file? >I could see the desire to flush the variables to disk for preservation, but >repeated look-ups would probably be more efficient. > Name-Token services?
It's the curse of Conway's law. z/OS provides too many dissimilar ways of performing similar functions. Name--token, system symbols, jcl symbols, ISPF variables, ISPF Edit variables, Rexx variables, ... All have different syntax to set and access them. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
