One of my other tools to make coding execs easier is EXECCALL: when you are XEDITing an EXEC, you often want to test it.
What do I often see: the user XEDITs the exec, searches the area to change, issues FILE, starts the exec from CMS Ready and that over and over again... What do I do: I stay in XEDIT (at the place of the code just changed), and press PF10 (PF10 is assigned to EXECCALL). EXECCALL will SAVE the file (if it was modified), start the exec passing what I entered in XEDIT's cmd area or the parameters defined on EXECCALL. EXECCALL supports various filetypes, but it acts always as "Save and Run". For a HELP file it means issuing "HELP xxxx fname" for example. With EXECCALL I find the need to have a second session most of the time not required. It is on the download lib, part of various XEDIT goodies. http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?GD-XEDIT 2010/7/6 Florian Bilek <florian.bi...@gmail.com> > Thank you for this clarification about multitasking in CMS. > > Maybe I was not precise enough. > > I would like to avoid always invoking XEDIT in order to change some line of > code in the REXX exec during debugging. The idea was to have the file > opened > in XEDIT, save it and then run it on a second screen connected to the same > VM guest. > > But this was only one example. I was looking for a more general solution, > where there would be two programs loaded in storage at the same time. > > Seems that this is not possible. So it is better to have a second VM User > accessing a SFS. > > Thank you for the feedback. > > Kind regards, > Florian > > > On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 23:49:36 -0500, Alan Ackerman > <alan.acker...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > >There isn't any way to modify a running REXX EXEC, if that is what you > want > to do. > > > >CMS Multitasking is very limited. It is really multithreading. All CMS > commands must run in the > >base thread, so you cannot run two commands such as XEDIT and the EXEC at > the same time in > >different threads -- even if you do have a second console. True > multitasking in VM is > >accomplished by using multiple virtual machines. > > > >You can switch back and forth between running and editing an EXEC on a > single console. But the > >EXEC has to be saved and restarted each time. (I do that all the time.) > Using Shared File System, > >you can run the EXEC in one virtual machine and edit it in another one. > You > still have to save and > >run the EXEC from the start each time. > > > >Alan Ackerman > > > >On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 20:39:24 +0200, Kolasinski Piotr > <p_kolasin...@compfort.pl> wrote: > > > >>-----Wiadomo¶æ oryginalna----- > >>Od: The IBM z/VM Operating System w imieniu Florian Bilek > >>Wys³ano: Pn 2010-07-05 19:14 > >>Do: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > >>Temat: Second screen in a z/VM CMS session > >> > >>Dear all, > >> > >>I am wondering if there is a utility available that would allow to use a > >>dialed screen to a VM running CMS? > >> > >>As I understand, there is the possibility to make multitasking > applications > >>under CMS. Also full screen is supported nowadays. > >>It would be great to have on one screen a REXX procedure edited while on > the> > >>VM console that exec could be tested. > >> > >>Thank you very much in advance. > >> > >>-- > >>Best regards > >> > >>Florian > >======================================================================== > -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
