I remembered that
(:) prefix command line (primary command) can execute line command
Command ===> :hx
Command ===> :i
Command ===> :r
etc ...
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.1.0?topic=commands-line
You can enter edit line commands as primary commands on the command line by
prefixing them with a
At least in z/OS 2.4, the documentation states that you can't issue a line
command from a macro. RFE?
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of
Weizman arbel
Sent: Sunday, September 19,
Thank you for your relevant and helpful comments. They are very much
appreciated, as I omitted some topics. I'll do my best to address them
here. Pardon the lack of brevity.
Concerning EXECIO:
Yes, the z/OS and z/VM EXECIO versions are mostly incompatible.
Once you have Pipes you don't n
On Sun, 19 Sep 2021 11:53:18 -0500, Hobart Spitz wrote:
>...
>Once you have Pipes you don't need or want EXECIO. ...
>
At times the effort of converting existing art outweighs the benefit. And
POSIX
pipes are portable to desktop systems; CMS/TSO Pipelines is not.
> - Pipes can read fro
This is my first post since leaving SCE. When I left, I had to give up my
laptop and all files. So yesterday I set about reestablishing myself on
IBM-MAIN. I took a lot of tries, but I think I got it right.
While at SCE, I had trouble with IBM-MAIN setup. Folks on the List
explained that some shop
On Sun, 19 Sep 2021 13:58:01 -0700, Skip Robinson wrote:
>This is my first post since leaving SCE. When I left, I had to give up my
>laptop and all files. So yesterday I set about reestablishing myself on
>IBM-MAIN. I took a lot of tries, but I think I got it right.
>
Welcome back.
>While at SC
On Sun, 19 Sep 2021 11:53:18 -0500, Hobart Spitz wrote:
>...
>Concerning EXECIO:
> - Pipes can read from or write to either a DD or a dataset. z/OS EXECIO
> can only use a DD.
>
o Can that DD be allocated to a UNIX file, with FILEDATA any of BINARY, TEXT,
or RECORD?
o Is it savvy to fil
