On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:59:21 +0000, Farley, Peter wrote: >Practically speaking however, starting a Rexx script under one of the z/OS >Unix shell programs is pretty much the only way to get it done. Although if >you use the BPXWUNIX() function from a TSO Rexx script to start another Rexx >script stored in the z/OS Unix file system it might work. I will have to try >that path out. > <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=functions-bpxwunix> BPXWUNIX() runs a shell.
>I have recently done some experiments with Rexx scripts stored in the z/OS >Unix file system encoded in ASCII and they will execute without a problem so >long as the starting script file is properly tagged as ISO8859-1 text. >Untagged Rexx script files started from any z/OS Unix shell do have to be >encoded in EBCDIC though. > EBCDIC -- Who needs it! suppose it's improperly tagged as ISO8859-1 text but writes UTF-8 strings to stdout? Will they display nicely via ssh to a UTF-8 desktop? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
