Gil,

Where I have questions are :

How can a LE enable application, using COBOL, C , etc. call UNIX services,
perform a function a UNIX function
And retrieving output back to COBOL..hence I would have to , have COBOL
call C issue 'popen' build pipe, send commands
Etc..,  is this correct ?

Scott


On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 5:58 PM Paul Gilmartin <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:14:27 -0500, John McKown wrote:
>
> >On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 11:37 AM, scott Ford wrote:
> >
> >> I was reading through IBM Unix services manuals and have a pipe
> question..
> >> If I as a STC ..issue a Unix command after a PIPE was established and
> >> retrieve output of the
> >> command,  ...
> >
> >​You can set the descriptor to be non-blocking using the BPX1FCT call.
> >
> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.bpxb100/fct.htm
> >  ...
> I wondered briefly, naively.whether popen() might be the simplest
> approach to this problem.  Then I came to my senses and remembered,
> it's  FILE * popen( ... ); and COBOL is probably not FILE*-savvy.
> (Or is it?)  It's a pity there isn't a more basic popen() returning a
> descriptor rather than a FILE*.
>
> -- gil
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