> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of John McKown > Sent: Monday, October 24, 2016 5:22 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: System REXX > > On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Paul Gilmartin < 0000000433f07816- > [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.
A server address space started at IPL could maintain the data on disk and whatever memory resident place you choose :) > > -- > Heisenberg may have been here. > > Unicode: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http- > 3A__xkcd.com_1726_&d=DQIFaQ&c=C3yme8gMkxg_ihJNXS06ZyWk4EJm8L > drrvxQb- > Je7sw&r=u9g8rUevBoyCPAdo5sWE9w&m=uv9qJ0Vup3lO4xHJmUjTyoWtcUQ > DzN859APS4H7abQ8&s=2fVYJmrn32irwRkxg8zb3xEbK2A0Bh_V8qDnBKTmO > D8&e= > > 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
