On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:45:39 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In a recent note, Mark Zelden said: > > >> IDCAMS works good for 1-15. This exec should work fine for >> anything else. >> >The RM states a maximum of 16. Does not state a minimum. >Empirically, 0 works. Yep. My bad.. I meant to say 0-15. But if you want zero, you can don't need anything but IEFBR14. > Empirically, 16 causes immediate >termination of IDCAMS. This may be documented elsewhere >than in the SET command. > I guess that is why I left off 16 from my list. You also get a warning msg with it "IDC3207I REMAINDER OF COMMAND INPUT STREAM IGNORED". > > >> /* rexx - set return code based on parm */ >> >Again, thanks, but not self-contained. I could do the >equivalent in one HLASM job step with SYSPARM and MNOTE, >I think. Not sure what your point is about not self-contained. If it was a HLASM program would that be okay? Why is this any worse than a IDCAMS or some other program that needs a STEPLIB? //S1 EXEC PGM=IRXJCL,PARM='SETRC 4095' //SYSTSIN DD DUMMY //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSEXEC DD DSN=REXX.EXEC.LIB,DISP=SHR > So far, IDCAMS is simplest for the function >I want. And no one has reacted with outraged accusations >of abusive programming. > Nothing wrong. I've seen it used for exactly this purpose many times. If 0-16 is all you need, why write / use another program (in any language). Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America and Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programming expert at http://Search390.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
