> I believe that if a CLIST begins withh a /* Rexx */ comment but that "operand" > is omitted it will execute as a CLIST regardless.
No: it examines the first line. > OMVS is worse. If an EXEC is spawned with a fully-qualified path, spawn > invokes the Rexx interpreter passing it the filename but not the path. > The interpreter searches for that name in directories in the PATH environment > variable. Ouch! Is that bug documented (BAD)? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 1:51 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PL/I vs. JCL On Wed, 29 Sep 2021 17:11:50 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >By directly, do you mean explicit use of EXEC? There's an operand to >distinguish CLIST from REXX. > I believe that if a CLIST begins withh a /* Rexx */ comment but that "operand" is omitted it will execute as a CLIST regardless. OMVS is worse. If an EXEC is spawned with a fully-qualified path, spawn invokes the Rexx interpreter passing it the filename but not the path. The interpreter searches for that name in directories in the PATH environment variable. If not found, it fails with a message. If a different instance with the same name is found it interprets that rather than the one in the specified path. IBM does not consider this a problem. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
