In <of74e1b14a.83f8d689-on88257d07.0057ca48-88257d07.0059b...@sce.com>, on 06/30/2014 at 09:19 AM, Skip Robinson <jo.skip.robin...@sce.com> said:
> Rexx does not have all three types parameters, I believe that the Rexx-callable routine that you're thinking of is XPARSE; I don't recall the author. >One power of TSO commands is that these keywords are managed by >the command processor itself. Prompting to resolve ambiguity, for >example, is handled before user code gets control. The command processor *is* user code. It's the user code that invokes PARSE, unlike some systems where command syntax is defined externally to the command routine. FWIW, a TSO command can exploit the stack in ways that a Rexx routine cannot. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN