On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 3:15 PM, 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. > > -- gil > > > None of which can be shared amount separate invocations of a System REXX program, nor their values kept over an IPL. -- 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
