Don't confuse REXX with a specific platform. The core languages lacks a variable sharing facility, but the original VM/SP implementation did not; it had GLOBALV, which is still available in z/VM.
-- 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: Saturday, March 21, 2020 11:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Does anybody remember CLIST? On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 22:26:06 -0400, Ken Smith wrote: >On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 21:06:22 +0000, CM Poncelet wrote: >> ... >>VPUT/VGET SHARED works also in batch TSO jobs, not only in ISPF/PDF. > >VPUT/VGET are ISPF services and would require an ISPF environment not just >TSO, or so I thought?? > I forced myself to glance at a few TSO manuals. The only mention of VPUT/VGET was in an example in an ISPF context. Of course, it's possible to run ISPF under TSO under batch JCL. The fact remains that Rexx lacks a variable sharing facility. It's accomplished, if at all, by using an external environment. Writing and reading a temp file or a POSIX pipe remains a possibility. -- 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
