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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN