Re: ODP: Second screen in a z/VM CMS session

2010-07-06 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Kris Buelens kris.buel...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: ODP: Second screen in a z/VM CMS session

2010-07-06 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Kris Buelens kris.buel...@gmail.com wrote: EXECCALL can help there too:  SET PF10 EXECCALL .EXEC mainexec But I rarely have an exec that does not require arguments, so I would need XEDIT to remember that too... Rob

Re: ODP: Second screen in a z/VM CMS session

2010-07-06 Thread Les Koehler
Before I retired we had a module from YKT that would execute the EXEC being edited FROM STORAGE, w/o having to Save it. Don't know if it ever was put in the VM Download Library but it was *very* handy for tweaking or experimenting with code! I wrote a RUN macro to invoke it and pass parms,

ODP: Second screen in a z/VM CMS session

2010-07-05 Thread Kolasinski Piotr
In REXX programs you may use PIPE with direct access to 3270 devices with specified dev address. Piotr -Wiadomość oryginalna- Od: The IBM z/VM Operating System w imieniu Florian Bilek Wysłano: Pn 2010-07-05 19:14 Do: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Temat: Second screen in a z/VM CMS session

Re: ODP: Second screen in a z/VM CMS session

2010-07-05 Thread Alan Ackerman
There isn't any way to modify a running REXX EXEC, if that is what you wa nt to do. CMS Multitasking is very limited. It is really multithreading. All CMS co mmands 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 --

Re: ODP: Second screen in a z/VM CMS session

2010-07-05 Thread Florian Bilek
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 ope ned in XEDIT, save it and then run it on a second