Well, I use OREXX on OS/2, so oorexx is a natural on Linux. The one disadvantage is that oorexx hasn't picked up all of the ANSI enhancements; but then, neither has TSO/E.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Tom Brennan [t...@tombrennansoftware.com] Sent: Friday, May 15, 2020 2:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is there any z/OS API to get byte file size for non-VSAM, non-zFS, non-database files? That's a Rexx I never tried, probably out of fear of the "OO" designation :) On 5/15/2020 11:11 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > EXECIO is in the hostemu environment of oorexx. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of > Tom Brennan [t...@tombrennansoftware.com] > Sent: Friday, May 15, 2020 12:44 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Is there any z/OS API to get byte file size for non-VSAM, > non-zFS, non-database files? > > That's one of my favorite things about Rexx (although I hear EXECIO is > not really part of Rexx and I know it's not in PC versions like Regina). > I've used it on some very large datasets, and yeah, you wait a bit for > the data to load. But once data is in the stem variable, things are > really fast and (another favorite of mine) you can easily do control > breaks by peeking 1 record ahead or back. > > On 5/15/2020 9:12 AM, Charles Mills wrote: >> Right, it appears to be magic -- "just say EXECIO and presto there's the >> record count in STEM.0" -- but under the covers it is reading through the >> whole dataset and counting. >> >> Rexx is all 31-bit, right? So the limit would presumably be something in the >> 1 to 2 GB range. That is not an implausibly huge dataset. 1GB is what? 800 >> cylinders or somewhat more, depending on blocking, short tracks, etc.? >> >> Charles > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
