Never mind, I see the manual states the closing parenthesis is optional. Bart
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of van der Grijn, Bart (B) Sent: Monday, January 30, 2017 1:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: sdsf in rexx Tim, I'm wondering if it ignores the WAIT because you didn't include a closing parenthesis on your option. So (WAIT) rather than (WAIT . Bart -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Monday, January 30, 2017 12:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: sdsf in rexx Thanks definitely a different method, still confused why mine doesn't always capture the result of $DO JOBQ,READY,DEST' Tim -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Monday, 30 January, 2017 11:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: sdsf in rexx ** THIS IS AN EXTERNAL EMAIL ** Use caution before opening links / attachments. Never supply UserID/PASSWORD information. Tim, I have a REXX exec I use to issue operator commands using the ISFSLASH keyword and writes the output to a temp file. I think I may have stole it then enhanced it for my use either from IBM, or someone on this list, but the processing of the ISFULOG array is somewhat more complicated than you have listed. I am posting the entire exec for you to play with, along with the JCL I use to execute. You can have as many commands as you want in SYSIN. ... _________________________________________________________________ Dave Jousma Manager Mainframe Engineering, Assistant Vice President david.jou...@53.com 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 MD RSCB2H p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.2717 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Monday, January 30, 2017 10:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: sdsf in rexx Using sdsf in rexx with command $DO JOBQ,READY,DEST COMMAND = '$DO JOBQ,READY,DEST' IF ISFCALLS('ON') <> 0 THEN EXIT 99 ADDRESS SDSF "ISFEXEC '/"COMMAND"' (WAIT" DO S1 = 1 TO ISFULOG.0 SAY ISFULOG.S1 END Its supposed to return the $HASP686 messages in ISFULOG array, which are same as when issued at console Sometimes it does and other times it doesn't return anything even when there are jobs available It just returns these 2 and not the ones with $HASP686 "CPAC 2017030 10:45:11.13 ISF031I CONSOLE DPP ACTIVATED" "CPAC 2017030 10:45:11.13 -$DO JOBQ,READY,DEST" $DO JOBQ,READY,DEST $HASP686 OUTPUT(FSP96A12) ROUTECDE=LLW001 $HASP686 OUTPUT(FSP96A12) ROUTECDE=LW001 $HASP686 OUTPUT(CAP81T43) ROUTECDE=LOCAL $HASP686 OUTPUT(CAP81T44) ROUTECDE=LOCAL $HASP686 OUTPUT(XTBPRT) ROUTECDE=LX509 Tim Brown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN