The real question is:
Why are z/OS developers unable to lower themselves and ask the z/VSE
developers to share their REXX VSAMIO code?
And, while they are at it, they could also borrow the REXX SORTSTEM
function from z/VSE.
These have been there since 2003 (or earlier). The code can't be that
different between the operating systems. I know the VSAMIO code
(ARXVCSTB) is C based so it should just be a recompile.
Tony Thigpen
Farley, Peter x23353 wrote on 05/12/2018 12:53 PM:
Rexx does have several versions of VSAM support, though none from IBM. Quoting
from the website of the late Gilbert St. Fleur
(http://gsf-soft.com/Documents/TSOVSAM.html):
Several RXVSAM programs are available, all of them are free:
1.Written and supported by Mark Winges, in file 268 of the CBT Tape.
(http://cbttape.org/ftp/cbt/CBT268.zip)
2.Written and supported by Steven Scott, found here.
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/rxvsam/)
3.There is a read-only VSAM function package, also called RXVSAM, in the VSAM
section of the Xephon archives. (http://www.xephon.com/archives/a012a01.txt)
4. The EXECIOVS program, found on the HiLMAs web site, provides an EXECIO-like
interface to VSAM data sets in REXX.
HTH
Peter
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On 12/05/2018 6:23 AM, Tony Thigpen wrote:
Come comments on other posts:
David Crayford wrote on 05/11/2018 02:22 PM:
The fact that REXX does not have native support for VSAM
data sets is a shocking omission.
This is available on s/VSE.
z/VM and z/VSE seem to have lots of features that z/OS lacks, like pipes.
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