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neelima.sinha · New User Joined: 14 Sep 2007 Posts: 30 Location: Bangalore

Hi,

I am not sure what the tittle of this mail should be but my requirement is as follows.

I want to execute a REXX routine.

Rexx should internally submit a batch job.
The batch job creates and output file
The contents of the output file should be displayed as final output on mainframe screen.

Is this possible. If yes, how.
Regards,
Neelima Sinha

neelima.sinha · New User Joined: 14 Sep 2007 Posts: 30 Location: Bangalore

My JCL is something like this and I want to display the output of file SDSF.FORMATA on screen ....

//*--------------------------------------------------------------------
// JCLLIB ORDER=(JJL.SUPPORT.CNTL)
//SDSF1 EXEC PGM=ISFAFD
//ISFOUT DD DISP=OLD,DSN=SDSF.OUTPUT
//ISFIN DD *
RES
SORT RESOURCE A

//SORT EXEC PGM=SORT,COND=(0,LT)
//SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*
//SORTIN DD DSN=SDSF.OUTPUT,DISP=SHR
//SORTOUT DD DSN=SDSF.FORMATA,DISP=SHR
//SYSIN DD *
SORT FIELDS=(08,16,CH,A)
SUM FIELDS=NONE
INCLUDE COND=(08,16,CH,EQ,C'SCHR_CR_STREAM_A',OR,
08,16,CH,EQ,C'SCHR_CR_STREAM_B',OR,
08,16,CH,EQ,C'SCHR_CR_STREAM_C',OR,
08,16,CH,EQ,C'SCHR_CR_STREAM_D',OR,
08,16,CH,EQ,C'SCHR_CR_STREAM_E',OR,
08,16,CH,EQ,C'SCHR_CR_STREAM_F',OR,
08,16,CH,EQ,C'SCHR_CR_STREAM_G',OR,
08,16,CH,EQ,C'SCHR_CR_STREAM_H',OR,
08,16,CH,EQ,C'SCHR_CR_STREAM_I',OR,
08,16,CH,EQ,C'SCHR_CR_STREAM_J',OR,
08,16,CH,EQ,C'SCHR_CR_STREAM_P',OR,
08,16,CH,EQ,C'SCHR_CR_STREAM_R')
OUTREC IFTHEN=(WHEN=(34,2,CH,EQ,C'ON'),
OVERLAY=(1:23,1,2:13X,15:C'MVSI',80X)),
IFTHEN=(WHEN=(52,2,CH,EQ,C'ON'),
OVERLAY=(1:23,1,2:13X,15:C'MVSL',80X)),
IFTHEN=(WHEN=(61,2,CH,EQ,C'ON'),
OVERLAY=(1:23,1,2:13X,15:C'MVSM',80X)),
IFTHEN=(WHEN=(70,2,CH,EQ,C'ON'),
OVERLAY=(1:23,1,2:13X,15:C'MVSP',80X)),
IFTHEN=(WHEN=NONE,OVERLAY=(15:C'NOT ACTIVE',80X))
/*

expat · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 2:57 pm

No, not possible, the submitted batch job and your TSO session are completely different address spaces (tasks).

This has been discussed before with the suggestion that the TSO session wait for the batch job to end and then display the output, but this was deemed a bad idea by almost everybody that commented. Well, except for the OP

acevedo · Active User Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 344 Location: Spain

Well, not need to submit a job, from Rexx you could invoke SDSF and SORT in foreground.

Feasible, but not Advisable

Pedro · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:56 pm

Adrian Stern · New User Joined: 13 Feb 2008 Posts: 12 Location: Sweden

I've done this in the past and it's certainly no big deal as long as you use a true wait routine (from uss). You can trap the response to the submit command, extract the jobid and then read it from the output queue.

But why would you want to?

There is a web version of sdsf too so your users don't even have to enter tso.

Adrian