Brian,
To the best of my knowledge, you're "stuck" with the structure you
described in your note. The syntax of label definitions and references
requires it. If you're concerned about the number of lines added to your
pipeline with each selection stage, note that since the pipeline description
is nothing more than a string in Rexx, the last three lines could easily be
written as
'? p: | f:',
Marty
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Brian Nielsen
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 10:57 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: A PIPE structure question
Is there a more elegant way to do the following PIPE structure:
'PIPE (ENDCHAR ?)',
... /* some stream of records */
'| p: PICK ...
'| t: TAKE ...
... /* only the records that pass all the filters come here */
'?',
't:',
'| f: FANINANY',
... /* all the records that were filtered out come here */
'?',
'p:',
'| f:'
What irks me is needing the last 3 lines. As more filters get added more=
of these trivial connections are required.
I'd really like to be able to connect the secondary output streams from =
multiple stages in the same pipe (in this case PICK and TAKE) directly to=
the pipe that collects the rejected records (in this case the pipe with =
FANINANY). If I read the PIPE syntax correctly there's no alternative, =
but I'm hoping I've overlooked some technique.
Brian Nielsen
