When I googled "z/OS PIPE VARLOAD", I got a z/OS manual, but I failed to
notice that the manual was for "Z Netview".
FYI, z/VSE wants Pipes too.
Tony Thigpen
Farley, Peter x23353 wrote on 9/14/21 6:34 PM:
Tony,
z/OS TSO Rexx has no pipes, only CMS has them.
Not that we don’t WANT them, but IBM so far has chosen not to port them to z/OS.
Peter
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Tony Thigpen
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Subject: Re: REXX - Interpret or Value - Which is better?
I do most of my rexx on VM, but on VM we have a method to directly read and
update a callers variables (as long as both are REXX) using the pipe stages VAR
and VARLOAD.
Just looking at the z/OS manuals, it looks like you have the same option in
z/OS.
Tony Thigpen
Bob Bridges wrote on 9/14/21 5:42 PM:
I've inherited responsibility for a huge REXX app that uses that technique to
pass many values back and forth between external routines. Each module has two
routines, one for packing up a list of variables and another for unpacking them
at the other end. I find it difficult to understand, but if I'd had to write
the thing from scratch maybe I wouldn't have come up with a better way to do
it, either.
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My main use case for interpret is passing back a string with stem variable
assignments from a procedure. Then the caller of the procedure interprets the
string - which has semicolons to separate the assignment statements.
I don't much like it but it seems the best I can do.
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