On Fri, 15 May 2020 09:12:36 -0600, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > >There are shell features like "here documents" (google it) which you've >probably never used that would get broken if input to the USS shell got >arbitrarily broken into lines to suit the flavor of MVS/TSO/JES > Au contraire. Here documents work far better if record boundaries are preserved (not arbitrarily; converted to NL); hardly at all if lines are concatenated.
I use them regularly BPXWUNIX does much better. Fantasy RFE: provide a rudimentary wrapper for BPXWUNIX callable via IRXJCL, not much more than: SIGNAL ON NOVALUE parse arg Login Cmd /* Cmd may have multiple tokens. */ address MVS 'EXECIO * DISKR STDENV (stem ENV.' /* Error recovery? */ call BPXWUNIX Cmd, 'DD:STDIN', 'DD:STDOUT', 'DD:STDERR', 'ENV.', Login return RESULT I'd expect DD *,SYMBOLS= to work for STDIN. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN