Thanks Alan, but what you have indicated won't work for me in CA-Easytrieve. The biggest problem is that to use null or space terminated strings as parameters, I have to be able to call BPXWDYN with R0 = 0 and Easytrieve doesn't provide a method of setting R0 to zero.
A wrapper is going to be needed. Charles (Chuck) Hardee Senior Systems Engineer/Database Administration EAS Information Technology Thermo Fisher Scientific 300 Industry Drive | Pittsburgh, PA 15275 Phone +1 (724) 517-2633 | Mobile +1 (412) 877-2809 | FAX: +1 (412) 490-9230 [email protected] | www.thermofisher.com WORLDWIDE CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: Dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or the information herein by anyone other than the intended recipient, or an employee or agent of a system responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform the sender and delete all copies. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Young Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 1:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Calling bpxwdyn from CA-Easytrieve I have called it for many years from COBOL using the C string parameter format (NULL terminated parameter string in the doc). No wrappers needed. Here's a short snippet: WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 WORKAREA. 05 BPXWDYN PIC X(08) VALUE 'BPXWDYN'. 05 WS-BPXWDYN-RETCODE PIC 9(08) COMP SYNC. 05 WS-OUT1-ALLOC-STRING. 10 PIC X(15) VALUE 'ALLOC MSG(WTP) '. 10 PIC X(14) VALUE 'DD(OUT1) DSN('''. 10 WS-OUT1-DSN PIC X(45). 10 PIC X(01) VALUE SPACE. 10 PIC X(23) VALUE 'NEW DELETE UNIT(SYSDA) '. 10 PIC X(27) VALUE 'CYL SPACE(01,01) DSORG(PS) '. 10 PIC X(34) VALUE 'RECFM(FB) LRECL(80) BLKSIZE(27920)'. *** TERMINATE COMMAND STRING *** COULD SET THE LAST PARM AS A Z STRING 10 PIC X(01) VALUE LOW-VALUE. PROCEDURE DIVISION. STRING 'A.DYNAMIC.DSNAME' ''')' DELIMITED BY SPACE INTO WS-OUT1-DSN. CALL BPXWDYN USING WS-OUT1-ALLOC-STRING RETURNING WS-BPXWDYN-RETCODE. IF WS-BPXWDYN-RETCODE EQUAL ZERO OPEN OUTPUT OUT-FILE MOVE 'THIS IS SOME DATA !!!!' TO OUT-REC WRITE OUT-REC CLOSE OUT-FILE ELSE DISPLAY 'ERROR BPX RC=' WS-BPXWDYN-RETCODE END-IF. GOBACK. Alan Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > I don't know in which language CA Easytrieve is coded, but a few years back I > tried setting up calls to BPXWDYN in Enterprise COBOL (V4.1 at the time) and > they did not work because COBOL does not zero R0 as BPXWDYN requires. I had > to code an assembler stub routine to put between the COBOL program and > BPXWDYN to get it to work. For simplicity the stub was non-reentrant to be > able use the LOAD macro to find a copy of BPXWDYN and save the entry point > address for later use. > > Email me privately if you want a copy of the stub routine. It wasn't hard to > code, 40 actual code lines and 7 lines of comments. > > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Hardee, Chuck > Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 7:41 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Calling bpxwdyn from CA-Easytrieve > > I have a need to be able to call bpxwdyn from within an CA-Easytrieve > "program". > > According to the manual, IBM says that bpxwdyn can be called from non-REXX > environments as long as certain rules are followed. > It also states that values can be returned as long as the return value > parameter follows the following format: > > PARMx DC Y(L'PARMxVAL+1) > PARMxVAL DC C'parameter value ' > (Notice the very important space at the end of the value string!) > The manual states that the length must be 1 greater than the maximum length > possible for the returned attribute. Since a dataset name can only be 44 > bytes, the length value should be fine. > > My need it to call bpxwdyn and have it return to me the dataset name > associated with a specific DD name. > > I have built the "command" string as follows: > > bpxwdyn-command DC Y(L'bpxwdyn-info) > bpxwdyn-info DC C'INFO FI(MYDDN) ' > > I have built the information return parameter as follows: > bpxwdyn-dsname-p DC Y(102) > bpxwdyn-dsname DC CL100'INRTDSN ' > > The call in Easytrieve is CALL BPXWDYN USING (bpxwdyn-command, > bpxwdyn-dsname-p) > What's happening is that I getting a return code of 20, invalid parameter. > What I don't get is whether it is with my command string or my returned value > strings. > > The manual states that on a call from a non-REXX environment, R0 must be zero. > > According to the Easytrieve manual, the CALL verb generates an MVS convention > calling list. So, based on that I can only assume that the last address in > the parameter list has it's high order bit on. Also, have written several > routines which trigger off of the number of parameters with the number of > parameters signaled by the high order but of the last one being on, and > having called these routines successfully in Easytrieve, I suspect my > assumption is correct. > > What I don't know is whether Easytrieve sets R0 to zero for the call. If it > doesn't, that could account for the return code of 20. > > So, my question is, has anyone ever called bpxwdyn from within an Easytrieve > program? > > Thanks, > Chuck > > > Charles (Chuck) Hardee<mailto:[email protected]> > Senior Systems Engineer/Database Administration > EAS Information Technology<mailto:DBA%20Engineering%20-%20DB2_IDMS> > > Thermo Fisher Scientific > 300 Industry Drive | Pittsburgh, PA 15275 > Phone +1 (724) 517-2633 | Mobile +1 (412) 877-2809 | FAX: +1 (412) 490-9230 > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | > www.thermofisher.com > > WORLDWIDE CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: Dissemination, distribution or copying of > this e-mail or the information herein by anyone other than the intended > recipient, or an employee or agent of a system responsible for delivering the > message to the intended recipient, is prohibited. 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