Alan, aren't you on a least 6.4?
FILEDESCRIPTOR should be there; in fact is has been in DMSPIPE ever
since OpenExtensions went in, which is when we were young and handsome.
But like so much else it was no doubt deemed too difficult to document
other than in PIPE AHELP and later in the Author's edition.
As I have no access to a 6.4 system I have to defer to Rob, but he and
Lizet have taken some days off.
Try
pipe literal resolve filedescriptor | pipcmd
Ready(65557160); T=0.01/0.01 08:20:58
As far as PIPE AHELP is concerned: in z/VM 6.3, the only function that
is unsupported is what is not shipped, which means anything marked by
exclamation point or inverted exclamation point in ahelp or the Author's
edition. Anything earlier (i.e., 1.1.10 and earlier) is fully supported
regardless of the way it is documented. Essentially, if it is there it
is supported.
On 08/28/2017 04:36 AM, Alan Altmark wrote:
On Sunday, 08/27/2017 at 07:05 GMT, "John P. Hartmann"
<jphartm...@gmail.com> wrote:
If fd means filedescriptor, try
pipe ahelp filedescriptor
Since it's not in the list of supported states (pipe help), I have to be
careful calling them out. But, yes, fd is a POSIX file descriptor.
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