The lack of an escape convention for command separators is bad, but otherwise the syntax is decent.
________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 1:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Piping under ISPF On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 11:16:06 -0600, Hobart Spitz wrote: >Cross posted to IBM-MAIN, TSO REXX, and Pipelines. > > The ISPF stacking character can be set to "|", but TSO tries to execute >the passed stack data after each command. If that could be disabled, data >could be passed from program to program, providing a stack based piping >capability. > Does anyone know how to disable stack data being executed? > Could it be a viable requirement candidate to have two command >delimiters, one that executed the stack and one that didn't? > TSO lexical syntax is a misdesign. Other languages I use such as Rexx, POSIX shell, C, ... use ';' as a command separator. If it occurs in a quoted string it behaves as ordinary text. TSO/ISPF provides no such way of escaping metacharacters; only choice of an alternative separator. (I've used '¾', keeping one on my desktop so I can copy/paste it.) CMS Pipelines is worse, motivated by the impoverished lexical syntax and tokenization of CP and CMS. -- 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
