True - however I think the original author of the exec was alternating between using the stem form and a variable replacement form.
For my sins, this was cut+paste from a REXX PDS that we have for unit testing. Rob From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: 11 July 2022 12:53 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How do I issue a command with a blank in it? EXTERNAL EMAIL ObNit Why don't you want to quoute the stem name? The statement address SDSF "ISFSLASH (mycmd.) (WAIT)" will work regardless of whether you give mycomd. a default value. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3<http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3> ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Rob Scott [rsc...@rocketsoftware.com] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 3:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU<mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Subject: Re: How do I issue a command with a blank in it? For what it is worth, SDSF REXX API already accepts an alternate form of input for the ISFSLASH verb where you can pass the name of a stem variable that holds one or more z/OS operator commands. For example : /* REXX */ x=ISFCALLS("ON") ISFDELAY = 3 mycmd.0 = 2 mycmd.1 = "D A,L" mycmd.2 = "D T" address SDSF "ISFSLASH ("mycmd.") (WAIT)" do respindex = 1 to ISFULOG.0 say ISFULOG.respindex end exit Rob Scott Rocket Software -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU<mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: 10 July 2022 18:19 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU<mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Subject: Re: How do I issue a command with a blank in it? EXTERNAL EMAIL On Sun, 10 Jul 2022 11:51:29 -0400, David Spiegel wrote: >Hi Gil, >You said: "..as XEDIT and "sed" do ..." >IIRC, TSO Edit should be included in this list. > Not in my list. On Sun, 10 Jul 2022 16:06:18 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >A space in an operator command is the separator between operand and comment. >That means that space has to be treated differently from other characters. >What the RFE would ask for is to suspend that special treatment for spaces >within framiong characters. > Within an apostrophe-framed string the special treatment of numerous characters such as comma, parentheses, and the apostrophe itself is suspended, perhaps using TRT. It should be simple to add <SP> to the list. >I don't know how difficult it would be to change MGCR to allow, e.g., /text/, >as an alternative to 'text'. > I was focusing more on the SDSF API than on MGCR. 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