John, There is a Rexx/CICS EXCI interface - CA1D. Just set it up here and it works well. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1083&uid=swg24009233
DSNREXX comes with DB2 and is well established. IMS - I think there used to be something there too, but no personal experience. Could be wrong.... FTP would be good! Phil -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: 18 November 2010 13:43 To: [email protected] Subject: REXX "address" environments There are a number of environments for REXX which are accessed via the "ADDRESS" command. Eg: ADDRESS TSO ; ADDRESS SDSF; ADDRESS SYSCALL; ADDRESS ISPEXEC; ADDRESS ISREDIT. So, I my mind was wandering around without a keeper the other day and started thinking about what other environments might be nice to have available. Some of these may already exist as they would be in envirnoments not available at my shop. But I was wonder what others might thing of them. The first one was one I can really get into: ADDRESS FTP. This would make scripting FTP sessions much easier. Some examples might be: RC=FTPCALLS('ON ') IF RC <> 0 THEN DO SAY "COULD NOT SET UP FTP ENVIRONMENT. RC="RC /* OTHER FEEDBACK ??? */ EXIT 16 END ADDRESS FTP "OPEN SERVER" /* GET USERID AND PASSWORD FROM DD:NETRC */ "LS" /* LIST THE FILES */ "CD /Some/subdir/ectory" "lcd 'HLQ' " "ascii" "put REST.OF.DSN(0) remote.File.txt" "lcd /some/unix/subdirectory" "get remote.file.txt" "close" RC=FTPCALLS('OFF') /* shutdown ftp client software */ Another might be ADDRESS SSH which would be similar, but would connect to a remoter SSH server and send the commands to the remote SSH shell for execution. Note that this was inspired by Dovetailed Technologies' excellent products for doing remote commands via SSH from z/OS batch jobs. How about ADDRESS SFTP to match the ADDRESS FTP? Other thoughts: ADDRESS CICS to send CICS requests via EXCI to a CICS region. ADDRESS IMS, ADDRESS DB2?? These may already exist for all I know - I'm quite ignorant. Am I overlooking something? Have I inspired anyone? 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