On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 22:05:07 +0300, ITschak Mugzach wrote:
>Has Anyone here tried this in Rexx? There is no formal way of doing that,
>but in a limited functionality - it works.
>
>The Version call work just fine. I tried the QUERY call and I can see that
>input is validated, and if wrong returns the RC, CC and error msg in the
>message buffer. This means that GIMAPI creates the working buffers.
>however, I abends 0c4-16.
>
>So, any experience with Rexx calling GIMAPI directly?
>
Ling ago I investigated this and concluded that Rexx can not create
the data structures required by GIMAPI because Rexx does not support
a pointer type. I mentioned this here and Kurt Q. replied:
https://listserv.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0906&L=IBM-MAIN&P=R647
I am sensitive to the concern. I'd like to provide a REXX interface to
GIMAPI, but unfortunately its priority doesn't compare to other work.
Next time I'll remember to include a smiley in my response.
I imagine that if you had a generic GETMAIN facility you could create
those structures using STORAGE(). I didn't try.
-- gil
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