In addition to the fact that you're using RC instead of RESULT, you're changing RC before you display it. After RC=$?, RC and $? will have the same value.
It's a good practice to use a string literal or a variable when passing a stem name; if you ever set a default value (out.=foo) then out. will no longer have the value. 'OUT.'. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 3, 2025 11:21 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Obtaining the Return Code from bpxwunix in a REXX progrm, External Message: Use Caution Hello -.Im not well versed in Rex -.I'm executing a Rexx program in z/os from tso Option 6I can issue a call to call bpxwunix 'ls -l',,out..I do get some unpredictable results, and most of the time I get the desired results-In other-words the results of the call to bpxwunix for ls -la is not consistent .I have modified the code to obtain the Return code from the call to bpxunit -..Here is the current source:ADDRESS syscall- "chdir " cmdstrg call bpxwunix 'Su' RC = $? Say 'RC From bpxunix .......' $? Say 'RC From bpxunix .......' RC call bpxwunix 'ls -l',,out. RC = $? Say 'RC From bpxunix .......' $? Say 'RC From bpxunix .......' RC ..The issue is the Say command always results the value of $? not the specific return code -.How do I get the return code from bpxunix call and display it properly in a Rexx program505165 -Thank YouPaul D'Angelo. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
