I believe that you will find that there is no load module called MVSVAR, but that MVSVAR is an entry in one of the external function packages IRXEFMVS or IRXEFPCK; the nomenclature can be a bit confusing. Note that REXX loads these during initialization.
Formally, every procedure in REXX is a function that can be invoked either with a function(arglist) term or with a call function arglist statement; again, the nomenclature can be confusing. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 4:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: REXX MVSVAR SYMDEF behavoiur On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 20:07:06 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >MVSVAR is not an external functions. > It's documented as among TSO/E external functions in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.ikja300/tsofunc.htm Is a clarification RCF needed? >Further, REXX functions only return a single result. Perhaps you're thinking >of commands, or of routines designed to be invoked with CALL. > Compare then, SYSCPUS( cpus_stem): https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.ikja300/syscpus.htm ... a function which sets values in members of a Rexx compound symbol and returns status as the function result. (You might invoke it with CALL and test RESULT.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
