[email protected] (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
> Intriguing.  Seems to be specifying redirection.  Pointless for CMS or TSO
> since the concept of standard input/standard output is alien to each.  
> Relevant,
> of course, to OMVS, but OMVS was unable to exert much influence on the
> design of z/OS Rexx.
>
> I wonder how this made its way into the Standard since standards tend to
> be descriptive and rarely innovate extensions except to resolve ambiguities
> or inconsistencies.

modulo CMS pipelines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMS_Pipelines

at least since 1982 (almost as old as REXX) ... I had author at spring
1982 adtech conference (week before share), archived reference
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#4a

later made available on MVS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BatchPipes
history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BatchPipes#History

BatchPipes Version 1 was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s
simply as a technique to speed up MVS/ESA batch processing. In 1997 the
functionality of BatchPipes was integrated into a larger IBM product -
SmartBatch (which incorporated two BMC Corporation product features:
DataAccelerator and BatchAccelerator). However SmartBatch was
discontinued in April 2000.


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