Ok fair enough. (-: I misunderstood then. I made the assumption that no TSO commands included EXECIO and that no TSO segment included also no OMVS segment.
--- (You can call Rexx programs from SAS very easily by the way. For example I made a simple hack to IGGCSIRX where you can wildcard search the catalog and put the datasets into a SAS dataset.) > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mark Zelden > Sent: 17. marraskuuta 2007 20:30 > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Running REXX program in a batch job > > On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:05:50 +0100, Lindy Mayfield > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I'm just curious, what sorts of things can a Rexx program can do that > >doesn't interact with TSO or ISPF (or...)? > > > >I tried, but I couldn't think of much, so I must have something wrong. > > > >Lindy > > > > The same sort of things you can do in other programming languages > without TSO / ISPF - even SAS :-). Read a file, process it, write a > file, > look at storage / control blocks, etc. > > Many of the utilities on my web site run fine with IRXJCL. > > Mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
