No, they're not part of Rexx, but as mentioned by Leslie earlier, they 
*are* part of CMS and were specifically added to improve the usability 
of Rexx. I was with IBM at the time and we cheered there addition!

Les

On 9/5/2015 9:29 PM, CVBruce wrote:
> I’m not an expert on this, but the example you gave in your bug report would 
> never work.  This has nothing to do with rexx, but with the way Linux/Unix 
> works.  When you typed the ampersand “&” at the end of the command, you 
> disconnected your keyboard from the running process and reconnected it to the 
> shell.  You can type all day and your program won’t see a single character.
>
> I played around with this and this example works on Linux (Raspbian) with 
> ooRexx (5.0.0).
> #!/usr/bin/rexx
> X = 0;
> Do I = 1 to 100000
>       X = X + 1;
>       If X//5 == 0  Then Do;
>               address hostemu TS
>       end
>       If X//7 == 0 Then Do;
>               address hostemu TE
>       end
> end;
> ::requires "hostemu” LIBRARY
>
> When you run this program, it must be in foreground or your keyboard will not 
> be attached to the program.  I got this example working by reading the 
> documentation provided in the ooRexx Extensions V4.1.3 manual.  I don’t find 
> this functionality particularly useful, and you may not either.  That doesn’t 
> mean that they are buggy.  And just because you find something in a TSO or 
> CMS manual doesn’t mean that it is a part of “Rexx”.  I just checked “The 
> Rexx Language, 2ed” and  TE, TS, and  HI are not mentioned.
>
> Bruce
>
>> On Sep 5, 2015, at 4:04 PM, J. Leslie Turriff <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>      Apparently, the ooRexx developers are happy with their crippled
>> implementation of these emulated commands, since their response to my bug
>> report is essentially, 'working as designed,' as IBM would have said (or
>> broken as designed, as IBM users sometimes have been wont to say about broken
>> features).
>>      See https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/bugs/1350/
>>
>> Leslie
>>
>> On Tuesday 18 August 2015 05:35:03 J. Leslie Turriff wrote:
>>>     The Rexx Extensions Library Reference (sort of) documents the HI, TS and
>>> TE immediate commands (syntax only) but does not explain how they are used.
>>> When a Rexx program is running and I type TS on the command line the system
>>>
>>> does not recognize it.  I get one of two messages:
>>>>    sh: TS: command not found
>>>
>>>             which is output from bash if I type it on the console where the 
>>> Rexx
>>> program is running; or
>>>
>>>>    If 'ts' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the 
>>>> package
>>>
>>> that contains it, like this:
>>>>   cnf ts
>>>
>>>             if I type the command on another console.
>>>
>>>     Prefacing it with 'rexx' does not help.  So, how are these used in the
>>> *nix environment?
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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>>      Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk.
>>      Consider man, who may well become extinct
>>      Because he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly before he thinked.
>>
>> -- Ogden Nash
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