IREXCOM has no interface for reporting that a variable has been dropped. All that it can do is to return the variables that are still known. The statement foo. = 'Blanket' does not create any variable other than foo., even though requesting the value of foo.baz will give you Blanket.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 1:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SDSF API question -- why only REXX & Java? On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 17:14:17 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >If you drop foo. and don't set any new values for, e.g., foo.bar, then a >request for N (next) will return only foo. I wouldn't expect drop foo.baz to >change that. > I am wondering about the case where e.g. I: foo. = 'Blanket' drop foo.baz How does IRXEXCOM report to a caller that foo.baz has been dropped? I might embellish this with: foo. = 'Blanket' moth = random( 1, 99999 ) drop foo.moth drop moth Now I no longer know which compound symbol I dropped. How does IRXEXCOM tell me a hole has been eaten in my blanket? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
