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Willy Jensen
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Joined: 01 Sep 2015 Posts: 712 Location: Denmark
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Hi, I've started looking at z/VM and came across this, in my opinion, rather strange call:
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st1 = "/EXEC ABC "||fn ft fm ||"(/"
"PIPE Stem s1.",
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The program ABC does not return a value, it just does an EXIT, so how do 'st1' get set and to what? I'm also not quite sure what the slashes around the EXEC ABC are doing. No GLOBALVs that I can see.
I have checked both the VM REXX User's Guide and the zVM REXX Language Reference, but didn't find an explanation there.
My apologies is this is basic VM stuff, but I haven't touched VM for ages. |
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enrico-sorichetti
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Joined: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 10873 Location: italy
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st1 = "/EXEC ABC "||fn ft fm ||"(/" |
is just a plain REXX assignment statement |
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Willy Jensen
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Joined: 01 Sep 2015 Posts: 712 Location: Denmark
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That's embarrassing - of course it is. But now I see what's going on, thanks |
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enrico-sorichetti
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Joined: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 10873 Location: italy
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well sometimes You have to look twice at things to see what is going on,
as I had to in this case |
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