ISPEXEC SELECT CMD goes through a standard interface. in particular, it goes through TSO EXEC for REXX scripts.
There are issues for Python that do not exist in REXX, so I'd have to know the specifics to comment on that. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Jon Perryman <jperr...@pacbell.net> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2025 5:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Subject: Re: REXX say & OOREXX was: In IBM-land, AFP means... External Message: Use Caution On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 20:23:39 +0000, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: >I'm following your example of civility. Thanks for letting me know. >How does calling ISPEXEC cause you to lose access to variables and how would >that differ >between TSO/E REX and ooRexx? The complaint about REXX is that when a REXX >script >calls an external REXX script, the callee has no access to the caller's >variable, >but that's less of a problem with ooRexx. This is true if the callee is called thru an ooRexx compliant method. However, is it compliant when the callee is called through various TSO methods (ISPEXEC SELECT). >ooRexx is not a TSO scripting language only because it has not been fully >ported to TSO. >If you believe that there are other obstacles, feel free to identify them. Consider a similar known situation. From the recent questionnaire on improving Python, we know it will run on z/OS. If it can run in batch, it should be able to run in TSO. TSO improvements were eerily missing from the questionnaire. It appears to have the same restrictions as Rexx. I can only speculate that ooRexx has this same limitation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
