Re: Rexx APIs (was: IODF address)

2020-12-17 Thread Seymour J Metz
of Paul Gilmartin [000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2020 4:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Rexx APIs (was: IODF address) On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 19:46:13 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Or at least a function to return the current addr

Re: Rexx APIs (was: IODF address)

2020-12-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 19:46:13 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Or at least a function to return the current address of a string variable, >plus some way to control alignment. > I've pondered something similar in connection with wishing for a variant of ATTACH that would leave the subtask running

Re: Rexx APIs (was: IODF address)

2020-12-17 Thread Steve Smith
Seems to me you'd get almost all the benefit with little effort to just write a simple program that LINKMVS could call to LOAD a module. That would keep it in storage for subsequent calls by LINKMVS, etc. Goes w/o saying it would need to be marked REUS at least. If the actual overhead of LINK

Re: Rexx APIs (was: IODF address)

2020-12-17 Thread Seymour J Metz
Gilmartin [000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2020 2:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Rexx APIs (was: IODF address) On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:47:27 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >I know of no REXX facility to enumerate environments, but z/OS Versio

Re: Rexx APIs (was: IODF address)

2020-12-17 Thread Seymour J Metz
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Farley, Peter x23353 [031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2020 2:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Rexx APIs (was: IODF address) Re: your

Re: Rexx APIs (was: IODF address)

2020-12-17 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
to accomplish it. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2020 2:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Rexx APIs (was: IODF address) EXTERNAL EMAIL On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:47:27 +, Seymour J Metz wrote

Rexx APIs (was: IODF address)

2020-12-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:47:27 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >I know of no REXX facility to enumerate environments, but z/OS Version 2 >Release 4 TSO/E REXX Reference describes the relevant environment, LINKPGM. > LINKPGM, which is essentially Assembler LINK macro, works well for such as ICSF; less