Walter, many thanks. We will certainly give this a try. Jim McAlpine
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Bass, Walter W <bill_b...@uhc.com> wrote: > Jim McAlpine wrote: > <snip> > > > > Thanks for all the replies and suggestions. Having spoken again to > > the developer who originally asked the question, it seems it is a tad > > > more complicated in that he actually wants to do i/o against the file > > from the REXX program. The question now becomes, can we call TSO from > > > a COBOL program without being authorised. And to answer Walts > > suggestion, no we can't have the COBOL program invoked from IKJEFT01 > > as that part of the architecture is carved in stone. > > > > You can call TSO from COBOL without being authorized, you just can't use > any authorized services. I do it in a program on the CBT called > SYMBSUB (file 779). Basically you just call IKJTSOEV to create the > TSO environment, then call IKJEFTSR to issue TSO commands. > > Here is a code snippet to give you a head start if you wish to pursue > this further. This should not necessarily be considered an endorsement > of using this approach. It's a pretty big gun to use if your target > happens to be small. > > > 01 WS-IKJEFT-PARMS. > 05 WS-IKJEFT-DUMMY PIC S9(8) COMP-5. > 05 WS-IKJEFT-RC PIC S9(8) COMP-5. > 05 WS-IKJEFT-REASON-CD PIC S9(8) COMP-5. > 05 WS-IKJEFT-INFO-CD PIC S9(8) COMP-5. > 05 WS-IKJEFT-CPPL-ADDR PIC S9(8) COMP-5. > 05 WS-IKJEFT-FLAGS PIC X(4) VALUE X'00010001'. > 05 WS-IKJEFT-BUFFER PIC X(256). > 05 WS-IKJEFT-LENGTH PIC S9(8) COMP-5 VALUE ZERO. > *************************************************************** > * CREATE TSO ENVIRONMENT > CALL 'IKJTSOEV' USING WS-IKJEFT-DUMMY > WS-IKJEFT-RC > WS-IKJEFT-REASON-CD > WS-IKJEFT-INFO-CD > WS-IKJEFT-CPPL-ADDR > END-CALL > > IF WS-IKJEFT-RC NOT = ZERO > MOVE WS-IKJEFT-RC TO WS-DISPLAY-RC > DISPLAY 'IKJTSOEV FAILED - RC=' WS-DISPLAY-RC > END-IF > > * ISSUE TSO COMMAND (E.G. ALLOCATE TEMP DATASET) > MOVE SPACES TO WS-IKJEFT-BUFFER > STRING 'ALLOC DD(TEMPDD) ' DELIMITED BY SIZE > 'DSORG(PS) LRECL(80) BLKSIZE(0) RECFM(F B) ' > DELIMITED BY SIZE > 'UNIT(SYSDA) SPACE(1,1) TRACKS ' DELIMITED BY SIZE > 'NEW DELETE' DELIMITED BY SIZE > INTO WS-IKJEFT-BUFFER > END-STRING > PERFORM 8000-CALL-TSO THRU 8000-EXIT > > *************************************************************** > * IF YOU CODED A SELECT ... ASSIGN TO TEMPDD, THEN YOU COULD > * CODE COBOL OPEN/WRITE/CLOSE, OPEN/READ/CLOSE, ETC. HERE. > *************************************************************** > > * ISSUE TSO COMMAND (E.G. FREE TEMP DATASET) > MOVE 'FREE DD(TEMPDD)' TO WS-IKJEFT-BUFFER > PERFORM 8000-CALL-TSO THRU 8000-EXIT > > *************************************************************** > 8000-CALL-TSO. > *************************************************************** > PERFORM VARYING WS-IKJEFT-LENGTH > FROM LENGTH OF WS-IKJEFT-BUFFER BY -1 > UNTIL WS-IKJEFT-LENGTH = 1 > OR WS-IKJEFT-BUFFER(WS-IKJEFT-LENGTH:1) > SPACES > END-PERFORM > > CALL 'IKJEFTSR' USING WS-IKJEFT-FLAGS > WS-IKJEFT-BUFFER > WS-IKJEFT-LENGTH > WS-IKJEFT-RC > WS-IKJEFT-REASON-CD > WS-IKJEFT-DUMMY > END-CALL > > IF WS-IKJEFT-RC NOT = ZERO > MOVE WS-IKJEFT-RC TO WS-DISPLAY-RC > DISPLAY 'IKJEFTSR FAILED - RC=' WS-DISPLAY-RC > MOVE WS-IKJEFT-REASON-CD TO WS-DISPLAY-RC > DISPLAY ' REASON CODE=' WS-DISPLAY-RC > DISPLAY 'CMD=<' WS-IKJEFT-BUFFER(1:WS-IKJEFT-LENGTH) '>' > END-IF > . > 8000-EXIT. EXIT. > > This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or > proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity > to which it is addressed. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended > recipient or his or her authorized agent, the reader is hereby notified > that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is > prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the > sender by replying to this message and delete this e-mail immediately. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
