On 2017-06-07, at 11:27, Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote: > This is getting to be like a discussion that was had on the REXX list > recently, as in it would be nice if there was an available PIPE type of > command available, oh wait there is: > > The product where IBM has made a PIPE command available: > http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=dd&subtype=sm&htmlfid=897/ENUS5655-D45 > That's obsolescent. It should be brought up to the level of the current CMS Pipelines, its cousin product. The right way to do this is to share as much source code as possible with minimal system-specific interfaces. But when I suggested this on another list Alan Altmark (IIRC) insisted that the effort to maintain the two as separate products is less. I suspect Alan is overly devoted to Conway's Law. I believe HLASM, Binder, SuperC, and others are supported for both z/OS and CMS from single sources, much to their benefit.
> Sorting is very simple there: > PIPE stem xy. | sort 1 5 | stem yx. > Or PIPE < indsn | sort 1 5 | > outdsn > But that's one utility that has been specifically repackaged as a Pipelines stage. Rather, what's needed is a more general scheme for invoking any utility from Pipelines using pipe connectors as its data sets. That's impractical on CMS because of the limited (nonexistent?) support of multiprocessing in CMS. It should be a better fit in z/OS. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
