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dubasir · Beginner Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 20 Topics: 9

In my REXX Code I have the following :

kolusu · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:17 am Post subject:

dubasir,

I had read it couple of times to understand as to what you are asking. From what I understood simply pass the following variables as parms to the processing logic macro

dubasir · Beginner Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 20 Topics: 9

kolusu,
I am sorry....the processing logic isn't a macro. The processing logic has reading the input files and then generating output into Output_PDS & Report_PDS etc.

Bill Dennis · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:46 am Post subject:

Do you mean that to exec the REXX you first EDIT it to change the file names? And now you don't want the logic portion visible to the person editing the file names?
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dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:08 am Post subject:

Do you want to execute the REXX script as:

<REXX script name> input.dsn,output.dsn,report.dsn

just change your REXX Script to have 3 arguments and modify your script to access the arguments.

Start here
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dubasir · Beginner Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 20 Topics: 9

Bill Dennis, you are absolutely right. Please let me know how it can be done.
Would be great if you can give me any example.

Bill Dennis · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:57 am Post subject:

Do as Dick suggested and pass the file names as argument strings so the user never sees the REXX code.
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dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:44 am Post subject:

here is one way that you can do it:

semigeezer · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:04 am Post subject:

oops. var1 2 and 3 should not be in quotes. That makes them literals

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:10 am Post subject:

thx semigeezer,
corrected the original.....
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expat · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:17 am Post subject:

And ...........

I would always use a trailing . after the variable list

because if you should enter A B C but because of finger trouble you enter A B C D
then var 3 will have the value C D instead of C.
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dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:29 am Post subject:

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dubasir · Beginner Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 20 Topics: 9

Thanks for your responses.

Nic Clouston · Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 4:37 am Post subject:

I thought there was something 'gotcha' about passing arguments - and there is. You can only pass one external argument to an exec. But, that argument can consist of 3 file names which you can then parse inside the script. Just be aware!
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expat · Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 6:48 am Post subject:

HUH ???

Most of my REXX codes accept multiple arguments from the JCL
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