On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 12:05:31 -0400, Tony Thigpen wrote: >SYSREXX is rexx code that can be run by the operating system. It allows >for some automation in my shop. > Like, SYSREXX : Rexx :: MetalC : XLC?
I was about to sneer, "What century is this!? What of the desigh inntegrity of OS/360!? Can't QSAM deal with it!?" But I can imagine that SYSREXX might reasonably be designed to be independent of access methods as MetalC is independent of LE. The Rexx GIM for the first release of TSO/E recommended RECFM=VB; no line numbers; mixed case for legibility. IBM immediately contravened its own recommendation in its first distributed Rexx EXECs. Bless IBM for choosing RECFM=VB; curse IBM for insisting on LRECL=255, and not merely making it an upper bound. Can I create a SYSREXX library with shorter LRECL and override at allocation to 255? Must all records be padded with blanks (or comments) to 255? I assume the 255 arises from a hard-coded input buffer. >Jesse 1 Robinson wrote on 08/23/2018 12:01 PM: >> Could I ask what 'SYSREXX' means? At first I thought this referred simply to >> the standard common set of REXX execs that users allocate at logon. Is it >> something else? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
