On Sun, 9 Mar 2014 23:41:12 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >>And it was in an ISPSTART context; > >Then you're dealing with ISPF issues, not just REXX and TSO issues; it >has nothing to do with what % allows. Try, at the command line, > >%rexx say arg(1); exit; ' > Yes, but I never claimed it was "just REXX and TSO issues", merely that there was a context in which EXEC worked but '%' didn't. And I was wishing for "EXEC *(MEMBER) ..." to avoid the need to fully qualify the path.
And, yes, I'd also wish for more permissive ISPF syntax. A scheme for escaping metacharacters would go a long way. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN