There are a number of environments for REXX which are accessed via the
"ADDRESS" command. Eg: ADDRESS TSO ; ADDRESS SDSF; ADDRESS SYSCALL; ADDRESS
ISPEXEC; ADDRESS ISREDIT. So, I my mind was wandering around without a keeper
the other day and started thinking about what other environments might be nice
to have available. Some of these may already exist as they would be in
envirnoments not available at my shop. But I was wonder what others might thing
of them.
The first one was one I can really get into: ADDRESS FTP. This would make
scripting FTP sessions much easier. Some examples might be:
RC=FTPCALLS('ON ')
IF RC <> 0 THEN DO
SAY "COULD NOT SET UP FTP ENVIRONMENT. RC="RC
/* OTHER FEEDBACK ??? */
EXIT 16
END
ADDRESS FTP
"OPEN SERVER" /* GET USERID AND PASSWORD FROM DD:NETRC */
"LS" /* LIST THE FILES */
"CD /Some/subdir/ectory"
"lcd 'HLQ' "
"ascii"
"put REST.OF.DSN(0) remote.File.txt"
"lcd /some/unix/subdirectory"
"get remote.file.txt"
"close"
RC=FTPCALLS('OFF') /* shutdown ftp client software */
Another might be ADDRESS SSH which would be similar, but would connect to a
remoter SSH server and send the commands to the remote SSH shell for execution.
Note that this was inspired by Dovetailed Technologies' excellent products for
doing remote commands via SSH from z/OS batch jobs.
How about ADDRESS SFTP to match the ADDRESS FTP?
Other thoughts: ADDRESS CICS to send CICS requests via EXCI to a CICS region.
ADDRESS IMS, ADDRESS DB2?? These may already exist for all I know - I'm quite
ignorant.
Am I overlooking something? Have I inspired anyone? Or am I whistling in the
wind?
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Systems Engineer IV
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