Or write a subsytem interface; dymically allocating a pipe is probably the better option.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of John McKown <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2020 1:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Scripting REXX thought -- inspiration or insanity? On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 11:16 AM scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > Shmuel , you and John both have a valid point. Rexx isnt meant to be an > IDE as far as I know. > But certain CLI(command line interface) options are desirable, since many > functions nowadays are cli drive from Linux or Unix ...of some sort. > > If memory serves me you could write an Rexx function package, to accomplish > what John is speaking about. I would have to look. > I was think of a "command processor" aka some program, which would parse the command line, accumulate all the "-e" values & place them in what the REXX documentation on IRXEXEC calls a "in-storage control block". I have done some minor reading about this and the I/O processing for the input data is non-trivial. I was hoping to be able to supply an I/O address to a routine. But apparently you must supply DD names. Rats. That really complicates things in a UNIX environment. I guess that in UNIX, I could make some pipes in the UNIX filesystem and do a DYNALLOC to allocate them so that I/O on the pipes is done via some subtasks. {blech} > > BTW - OT - be safe and stay well both of you. > > Scott > > > -- People in sleeping bags are the soft tacos of the bear world. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
