On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 15:15:27 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:
>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. The situation is perhaps further complicated by multi-address-space considerations, especially when invoking UNIX commands. -- Walt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
