On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 at 17:51, Donald Russell <russell....@gmail.com> wrote:
> You don’t need to EXECLOAD an exec file as a rexx file to use it as a pipe > stage. I’d argue that makes things even more obscure. (Did you also do the > EXECDROP) Exactly Don, but if someone is flabbergasted by return code -3 we don’t help by providing examples that work for reasons we forgot (yours was educational but still overkill) Start to understand the difference between a exec that invokes a pipe as as host command. Then learn how to subroutine pipeline write stages in Rexx with file type REXX. You can look at my 1 hoe pipe intro if needed. Then, if you’re troubled by the number of moving parts or DRY we can help. Try to walk before wanting to run. Rob >
