On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 15:39:40 -0400, Tony Thigpen wrote:

>PARSE SOURCE on VSE returns:
>VSE COMMAND TESTREXX PROC IPLLIB.VSE2PDF1.TESTREXX.PROC
>TESTREXX VSE VSE ?
>
So it would be practical to multipath for compatibility.

>VSE does not have pipelines.
>
z/OS barely has Pipelines.  An obsolete version.  And hard to order.

For more than you want to know about Rexx (in)compatibility, see
Dave Alcocks http://planetmvs.com/rexxanywhere/index.html

OK.  Thanks. Comparing z/VSE and Z/OS ADDRESS environments, I see:

           z/VSE                                     z/OS

Ref.    SC33-6642-10                              SA32-0972-30

LINK    Like JCL EXEC or Assembler Call           I think this is a relic of 
CMS calling
        with only one argument.                   conventions.  I've never used 
it.

LINKPGM Like Assembler CALL with multiple         Like Assembler CALL; length 
halfwords not
        arguments; length halfwords generated     generated automatically.
        automatically.

LINKMVS n/a                                       Like Assembler CALL with 
multiple
                                                  arguments; length halfwords 
generated
                                                  automatically.  (This seems 
to be
                                                  z/VSE's LINKPGM.)

-- gil

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