My primary concern was to not leave newbies guessing, although I would certainly be pleased if someone were able to do an RFE with a compelling business case to allow embedded spaces within all quoted text. It would also be nice if they could justify allowing quotes as an alternative framing character to apostrophes.
I like the suggestion of having SDSF support (name) in the REXX API. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Friday, July 8, 2022 2:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How do I issue a command with a blank in it? On Fri, 8 Jul 2022 17:23:53 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >I had assumed that START would accept spaces as long as they are framed in >apostrophes, but the OS/360 documentation only mentions parentheses. I've >submitted an RCF, citing REPLY and SEND as commands that definitely accept >embedded spaces. > If RCF doesn't provide an effective resolution (i.e. *not* "You can't do that!"), the next step is an RFE on Operator Commands. No avail to the command line user, but the SDSF Rexx API should provide a scheme akin to SYSCALL's "(variable_name)" (you corrected me on that lately) to use IRXEXCOM to access an arbitrary string not subject to parsing by Rexx. -- 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
