To be clear: when the user gains control of the Edit session, your Edit macro XCHGRUN has exited. So the only* active REXX exec is the one that did the EDIT command.
* and possibly an exec that starts ISPF, if that's allowed by your installation -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Schmitt, Michael Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2026 10:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Test for command after Rexx ISREDIT This still isn't clear to me. 1. Before you enter the exec that does the EDIT, you're in ISPF (i.e. not in Edit). 2. You do the command. This starts an ISPF Edit session, but before the user gets control... 3. You have MACRO(XCHGRUN), so it runs XCHGRUN as an initial macro. 4. At the end of XCHGRUN, if that macro does *not* issue an ISREDIT "END" or "CANCEL" command, then the user gains control of the Edit session. If the macro issues END or CANCEL then the Edit session ends and we're back in your first exec. 5. If the macro didn't end the Edit session, the user has control of Edit. Eventually the user ends the Edit session. 6. Now we're back in your first exec, after the EDIT command. 7. Eventually this exec ends and we're back at ISPF. So at what point are you trying to determine what command was entered? Note: I don't /think/ it is possible to tell what command was entered without changing the Edit panel. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, May 4, 2026 9:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Test for command after Rexx ISREDIT My apologies,sorry for the confusion -The original posting was incorrect -I do issue ADDRESS ISPEXEC "EDIT DATASET('" || WORKDSN || "(" || TEMPRUN || ")') MACRO(XCHGRUN) PARM(TEMPRUN)" .Yes I am still in edit mode - and I want to determine if SUBMIT, END, CANCEL, or a PF key was entered ...I should be able to determine what action the user performed/entered in Rexx..paul ---------- Original Message ---------- From: "Schmitt, Michael" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Test for command after Rexx ISREDIT Date: Mon, 4 May 2026 14:42:34 +0000 What do you mean by "When the Edit session is returned to the user"? If you mean when the Edit session ends and the user is back in ISPF, the last action had to be something that ends Edit. And that sets a return code. If you mean when the macro is over, then how can you detect anything? You're not in a macro anymore. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2026 2:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Test for command after Rexx ISREDIT I'm not well versed in Rexx -.I do have a simple rexx routine which calls another routine to issue a macro as follows:. address ISREDIT "macro (PDSMEM) NOPROCESS" "CHANGE '@@@class' '"drgclass"'" "CHANGE '@@@packg' '"drgpackg"'" "CHANGE '@@@envt' '"lenvt"'" . address ISPEXEC "ISREDIT SAVE "t.I have no issues with the above code snipet -It works very well as expected -.When the Edit session is returned to the user, I would like to detect the last function the user performed on that screen -The user could have entered SUBMIT, CANCEL, simply depressed the enter key, or decided to end with PF3 -How can i easily and safely determined what the user last performed ?..paul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
