> On 2019-09-12, at 14:26:36, Seymour J Metz wrote: > >> This implies that submitter must have an OMVS segment. > > No. If he can run in a Unix shell than he can use the Unix functions for > REXX. > > I looked at Chapter 2. OMVS, a 3270 terminal interface to the z/OS shell in > z/OS: UNIX System Services User's Guide and didn't see anything about > requiring an OMVS segment. It's possible that you need an OMVS segment to use > the OMVS command, but that's certainly not implied by the functions for RXX > under a Unix shell. > Usuing any UNIX facility causes the task to be dubbed with the UID in the owners OMVS segment, a generated unique UID, or (obsolete) a default UID.
>> And it was done as a function package, so SIGNAL ON NOTREADY is not >> supported. > > The ANSI specifications call for returning an empty string rather than > raising a signal. But I wonder whether IBM would accept an RFE to allow > external to raise a signal. > I find NOTREADY in the Preliminary ANSI Standard at: http://www.rexxla.org/rexxlang/standards/j18pub.pdf Have you a better citation? What should LINEIN() do to distinguish an empty line from end-of-file? I've used implementations where the STREAM() function makes the distinction. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN