Charles:
The TSO command to receive data (not the tso transmit/receive) is
document in a small booklet (can't remember the number) but IIRC it
was a 3 ring binder. This small booklet was a wealth of information
and if you look hard enough there is "help" (s/b in sys1.help) but
since it was never a supported program (it was in the SMP4 era
believe it or not) there was never an FMID (AFAIK) just a 3.5" floppy .
Ed
On May 6, 2015, at 7:50 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
just about everyone wrote a CALLCP command to do this, often with
variations. I'll bet there are several on the CBT site.
Does anyone know of one? I can't find one looking at the one-line
descriptions and it is kind of a PITA to download and RECV a file
just to find out that it's not at all relevant. I thought File #
325 TSO Command Processor Programs from Wells Fargo looked
promising but it's not this.
Charles
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On 5 May 2015 at 18:47, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote:
Assume a program in userid.MY.LOAD named FOO. Assume TSOLIB ADD
DSN(MY.LOAD) which implies Ready prompt, not ISPF. Is the
following correct?
- If I type FOO SOME OPERANDS then FOO will be entered "as a TSO
command"
with R1 pointing to a 4-word CPPL. The doc is pretty clear on that.
Yes.
- OTOH if I enter CALL MY(FOO) 'SOME OPERANDS' then FOO will be
entered with normal z/OS linkage, e.g. R1 pointing to a word that
points to a halfword length and the character string 'SOME OPERANDS'
(without the quotes). Is that correct? The doc is not very clear
to me.
Yes.
I'm surprised the doc isn't clear, but it's one of those "everyone
knows that" sort of things, so I don't doubt you.
A corollary question: is there any way to execute FOO as a TSO
command
but specify that I want the FOO in userid.MY.LOAD, not some other FOO
that might be ahead of it in the STEPLIB concatenation? Can I get the
explicit load library of CALL with the linkage of a command
processor?
(Excluding solutions that involve writing programs to search the
libraries, de-concatenating, and so forth. I want to just execute FOO
from a specified load library without changing the whole
environment.)
READY
test my(foo) cp
IKJ57090A ENTER COMMAND FOR CP
foo some operands
TEST
run
<output from foo>
READY
Over the decades just about everyone wrote a CALLCP command to do
this, often with variations. I'll bet there are several on the CBT
site. But of course *that* command has to be in some sense
installed, or of course you can run *it* under TEST...
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