That's part of the issue REXX essentially supports only what is in the CMS stack, not the features of the TSO stack written specifically for CLIST.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Jesse 1 Robinson <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2019 4:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: WEEDING OUT DSNS WITH CATALOG ENTRIES ONLY One CLIST feature I miss in REXX is the ability to run in subcommand mode. With CLIST, you can execute for example TSO TEST and supply in-line subcommands that execute in sequence from within the CLIST. With REXX, you have to QUEUE the subcommands before issuing TEST, after which REXX is no longer in control. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2019 12:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: WEEDING OUT DSNS WITH CATALOG ENTRIES ONLY DATA and DATA PROMPT come to mind, as does the parsing of keyword parameters. I've tried to avoid CLIST since TSO/E V2, but there really re things that it does better than REXX. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Dana Mitchell <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2019 3:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: WEEDING OUT DSNS WITH CATALOG ENTRIES ONLY What would be one of those cases? I can't really think of anyting, maybe its been so long since I've written a clist that I'm don't remember what I'm missing. If you want a trip into the early 80's, try writing an IBMi CL program ;) Dana On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 16:41:15 +0000, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > >Seriously, there are actually cases where CLIST still makes sense. I just wish >that they'd enhance REXX to have the same capability. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
