On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 13:04:59 +0000, Seymour J Metz  wrote:

>ZSCREENI?
>
I stand corrected.  I glanced at my 4-year code too hastily.
Thanks.

But my question remains, how does compound symbol TRAP.
get populated?


>________________________________________
>From:  Jeremy Nicoll
>Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2020 5:53 AM
>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>Subject: Re: Using symbolic DD names
>
>On Wed, 30 Dec 2020, at 22:59, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 15:16:49 -0600, Dana Mitchell wrote:
>
>> >Address ispexec 'VGET (ZSCREEN) SHARED'
>> >ddname='$TRAP'zscreen
>> >'ALLOC FI('ddname') UNIT(3390) DSO(PS) RECFM(V B) LRECL(255) NEW DEL REU'
>> >'EXECIO 'trap.0' DISKW 'ddname' (FINI STEM TRAP.'
>> >
>> I'm mystified.  I've used very much the VGET as you wrote it to fetch an
>> entire screen image into a simple Rexx variable.
>
>You couldn't have done.  According to ISPF Dialog Developer's Guide and 
>Reference,
>zscreen is a 1-byte variable ...

-- gil

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