On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:40:05 -0400, Phil Smith Iwrote:
>...am I the only one who SMH at the documentation for things like ISFEXEC
>(https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=language-issuing-commands-isfexec)?
> It reads like it was written by someone who doesn't quite understand how
>variables/literals work in Rexx:
>--
That intended URL is likely not to work because ')' is a charcacter
permitted in URLs ans some viewers (e.g. Firefox) will submit
it as part of the query string. Better (RFC 1738?):
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=language-issuing-commands-isfexec>.
The TSO Rexx refe. teems with cases where the writer fails
to understand or misleads the reader about the differences among
parsing by Rexx, parsing by the TMP, , and parsing by the command
processor.
In many cases it would be clearer to delimit strings for REXX witn\
quotation marks and strings for TMP with apostrophes:
address TSO "allocate dsn('sys1.samplib')"
rather than doubling apostrophes.
-
gil
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