Is that operand required? On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 10:12 AM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote:
> By directly, do you mean explicit use of EXEC? There's an operand to > distinguish CLIST from REXX. > > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf > of Skip Robinson <jo.skip.robin...@gmail.com> > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 12:42 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: PL/I vs. JCL > > How about invoking a module directly? No SYSPROC is involved here. > > EX 'dsn(member)' > > I have no way to test it at the moment. > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 7:22 AM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > > > TSO SYSPROC is the only case I know of where /* REXX */ is required. > > > > > > -- > > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > > ________________________________________ > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf > > of Phil Smith III [li...@akphs.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 10:06 AM > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Subject: Re: PL/I vs. JCL > > > > Bob Bridges wrote: > > > > >Purely by the way, but I've never really understood why so many REXX > > modules I see start like this: > > > > > /* REXX */ > > > > <snip> > > > > > > > > I think (a) it's documented that way in some places; (b) Some > environments > > may even require that; (c) that's how some/many examples have it; and (d) > > it's bizarre, because these all work in TSO: > > > > /* Rexx */ > > /* This rexx program. */ > > > > /* This is (rexx) */ > > > > /* This is not(rexx)s */ > > > > /* Thisisrexxyep */ > > > > but > > > > /* This is a program */ > > > > does not. So something is parsing the entire first line, looking for the > > leading "/*" and four letters "rexx" in a row, case-insensitive. Bizarre. > > > > > > > > Having grown up in VM, I'd never even thought about it, other than > knowing > > that I needed the word "rexx" in the first line in TSO. (On VM, just the > > leading "/*" is sufficient.) > > > > -- > > Skip Robinson > 323-715-0595 > > -- Skip Robinson 323-715-0595 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
