I will not demonstrate anything where a full blown implementation of PIPE must be typed in.
My example was a starting point, nothing more, nothing less. At this point we are picking ant poop out of pepper. ____________________________ Jim Hughes 603-271-5586 "Its kind of fun to do the impossible." (Walt Disney) ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:57 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Some REXX exec help needed. In that case parse value diagrc(8,' SPOOL CONS CLOSE OPERATOR ') with cprc cpcc cpmsg if he wants to see both the the return code and the message or parse value diag(8, 'SPOOL CONS OPERATOR CLOSE') with cpmsg if he doesn't care about the rc or cc from CP but does want to see the message. Yet another way would be y = diag(8,'SPOOL CONSOLE OPERATOR CLOSE) and then process the variable Y. If all that us wanted is to keep the response from showing up on the console, then a simple call diag 8, 'SPOOL CONS OPERATOR CLOSE will do the trick. Maybe many start with that type of simple Pipe, but they need to learn that Pipes is not the correct tool for every job. There are many places where a Pipe is the best tool, but for something like processing a simple command that only returns a small amount of data in its response or if the desire is simply to suppress the display of the response, there are better ways. I have known many people who learned to use Pipelines as a replacement for EXECIO (and, as Phil Smith III likes to point out, there are places where EXECIO is superior to Pipelines) and who have written many complex REXX programs who still, after several years, have never progressed beyond code that looks like this: 'pipe cp cmd1' 'pipe cp cmd2' . . . 'pipe cp cmdn' (Yes, Alan, most who code like this commit that other sin of not including an "address command" statement in their programs.) Regards, Richard Schuh ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hughes, Jim Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 5:56 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Some REXX exec help needed. Pretty harsh comment there Richard. It seems he'd like to eat up the response to the Close command and perhaps process the result. The CP command as you wrote it displays it on the console. The DIAG command as you wrote it also displays the output on the console. How about cutting me some slack? Many people start using PIPE's with a simple one like mine. ____________________________ Jim Hughes 603-271-5586 "Its kind of fun to do the impossible." (Walt Disney) ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 5:36 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Some REXX exec help needed. Even cheaper, say diag(8, 'SPOOL CONS CLOSE OPERATOR') or 'CP SPOOL CONS CLOSE OPERATOR' Why invoke Pipelines when there are both an internal function and a simple command that will do the job with much less overhead (no scanner, scheduler, etc.). This is a case of blatant misuse of Pipelines. Regards, Richard Schuh ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hughes, Jim Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:25 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Some REXX exec help needed. It works for me. On the other hand why not make life easier on yourself and PIPE it: PIPE LITERAL CLOSE CONS OPERATOR | CP | Stem ans. " ____________________________ Jim Hughes 603-271-5586 "Its kind of fun to do the impossible." (Walt Disney) ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 5:19 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Some REXX exec help needed. Yes it did as indicated below, but shouldn't this have appeared in the reader stack as shown by keying in the following at the console? CLOSE CONS OPERATOR CON FILE 0227 SENT TO OPERATOR RDR AS 0063 RECS 0017 CPY 001 T NOHOLD NOKEEP Ready; CP Q RDR OPERATOR ORIGINID FILE CLASS RECORDS CPY HOLD USERFORM OPERFORM DEST KEEP MSG E18823 0063 T CON 00000017 001 NONE STANDARD STANDARD OFF OFF OFF Ready; >>> "Hughes, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 7/16/2008 5:14 PM >>> If the console was spooled, it went to operator. CP Q RDR OPERATOR and see if a console spool file is there. ____________________________ Jim Hughes 603-271-5586 "Its kind of fun to do the impossible." (Walt Disney) ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 5:13 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Some REXX exec help needed. This is what shows up during execution: 204 *-* 'EXECIO * CP (STRING CLOSE CONS OPERATOR' >>> "EXECIO * CP (STRING CLOSE CONS OPERATOR" 205 *-* MAXLINES = QUEUED() >>> "0" >>> "Hughes, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 7/16/2008 5:09 PM >>> Yes. ____________________________ Jim Hughes 603-271-5586 "Its kind of fun to do the impossible." (Walt Disney) ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 5:06 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Some REXX exec help needed. Thanks... Is my EXECIO statement valid? >>> "Hughes, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 7/16/2008 5:03 PM >>> MAKEBUF not MAKBUF hence the -3. ____________________________ Jim Hughes 603-271-5586 "Its kind of fun to do the impossible." (Walt Disney) ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 5:00 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Some REXX exec help needed. I have the following code in a REXX exec which if I recall worked without any issues in a prior life. 'MAKBUF' BUFFNUM = RC 'EXECIO * CP (STRING CLOSE CONS OPERATOR' The MAKBUF is returning an RC of -3 and the EXECIO statement isn't working but did in the past. I know this is crazy but all this started after I logged off and then back on. Any ideas as how to solve this will be appreciated. Thanks. _____________ LEGAL NOTICE Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is confidential and may be privileged. 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