How to use ISPEXEC, ISRSUPC in batch

ssk1711 · New User Joined: 16 Jun 2008 Posts: 40 Location: bangalore

I'm using the command

ADDRESS ISPEXEC "SELECT PGM(ISRSUPC)" ,
"PARM(SRCHCMP,ANYC,NOSUMS,LMTO)"

to search given string in a PDS and put in output file. This command is working fine when I execute the rexx in online mode, using 'EXEC' command.

But when I am using the above command in another rexx program which is executed by JCL in batch mode, I am getting error during execution of this ISPEXEC command.

MY JCL to execute rexx pgm (IAT3) looks like this:

//REXEC EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,COND=(0,NE)
//OUTDD DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSIN DD *
EX 'userid.TEST.EXEC(IAT3)'
//*

The error looks like this:
132 *-* ADDRESS ISPEXEC "SELECT PGM(ISRSUPC)" , "PARM(SRCHCMP,ANYC,NOSUMS,LMTO)"

+++ RC(-3) +++

Could anybody help me in using the above ISPEXEC search command in batch rexx.

expat · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:52 pm

You are executing an ISPF instruction and as such need to allocate the required ISPF libraries to your JCL.

ISRDDN will tell you the libraries that you need.

superk · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:45 pm

Also, since you're using ISPF, you need to start ISPF for your batch TSO session using the ISPSTART command.

superk · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:55 pm

Sigh.

I wonder how many times it'll have to be pointed out that the Terminal Monitor Program (TMP) IKJEFT01 is batch TSO, not batch ISPF, before everyone gets into the habit of either NOT using ISPF services in batch or creating/using a standard PROC with all of the proper ISPF library definitions.

expat · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:51 pm

Yeah, it took a couple of hours to write an exec that extracts all the ISPF info from the current session and to build that into a batch PROC for future ISPF. Always one of the first things to run after arrival at a new site.