J O Skip Robinson wrote: >Users needed a simple way to display percentage free space on a set of DASD >volumes identified by volser prefix. Simplest solution was to run our own >SPACE command, trap the output, do some calculations, and display the answer. >SPACE runs in subcommand mode, so issue SPACE followed by subcommands to get >desired output.
Uhhh, sorry, but what is 'subcommand mode'. This is certainly something I never heard of. >I could not get this to work in REXX. As soon SPACE was entered, no >subcommands would be read from the stack until I manually entered 'end'. That >exited the SPACE command and lost all further processing opportunity. >So I wrote a CLIST-first brand new one decades. I had to read the manual a >lot, made many mistakes, but got it working because CLIST handles subcommand >mode just fine. Question: did I really need to do that? Ouch. You can use REXX to trap output. Perhaps if you can give me your sanitized version of SPACE and your CLIST, I could try to conjure up a REXX thing. No guarantees of course... There are many examples of REXX programs floating around trapping output of another program or CLIST/REXX. Alternatively, could you try something in REXX on a list of volsers in ISMF? Or REXX on a report of available space from ISMF? Or could you rewrite SPACE to accept parameters instead of 'subcommands'? Then it is just one call and REXX/CLIST can trap everything for you. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
