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Naresh · Beginner Joined: 27 Apr 2012 Posts: 8 Topics: 1

Hi Nic --- Thanks for your response!!! Couple of points I want to bring infront of you.

1. Yes i agree in the previous post i forget to add MACRO and even Adding a Macro still iam getting the same errors. that is only reason why i have added the MAcro and posted.

2. People who started as begginer like me - will reach or post to forums only when they face problems even after going through manuals. so please don't think that without reading manuals or just with cut copy paste from goggle we are starting from there.

3. How much senior or how much intelligent he/she would be - they have to start their carrier as a begginer only Smile

I tried executing this commands individually at that time it works fine ut when iam trying to execute this through macro iam facing this problem and i don't know where am going wrong. this is the only reason why i post.

anyway Thanks for responding to my uery NIC. Have a Nice Day!!!

papadi · Supermod Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 594 Topics: 1

Sounds like it is time to take a step back and consider. The topic appears to be moving back-and-forth rather than proceeding towards a solution.

When posting concepts or code it is most important that the post contain accurate, correct info. There has been some confuson due to the inconsistency of the posts from Naresh.

Even beginners can be expected to post what they intend to post. One way to improve quality is to use the Preview function so the poster can see their post as it will appear to the forum.

Suggest you look at another macro that is working on your system, compare the way it is structured with the problem macro, and change yours accordingly.

Nic Clouston · Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 4:37 am Post subject:

Well, with regard to coming to the forum for help: when I was learning macros there were no forums - there was no Internet! - so I used other peoples macros as examples and the manual and eventually I got the stuff to work. And I asked my colleagues. Oh, and because there was no internet there were no on-line manuals so you had to search the manuals cupboard/rack and then everyone's desks to find what you were looking for - you might even have to go to another department and 'borrow' their copy.

Now, the fact that you try the commands individually beforehand does not mean they will work in a macro. Macros have different requirements from interactive - some commands work differently, some are not available and some are extra. That is why the word 'MACRO' is in the title of the manual I pointed you to - to recognise that edit commands and macro commands, although similar (and often identical) can differ.
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Naresh · Beginner Joined: 27 Apr 2012 Posts: 8 Topics: 1

Hi Nic - Well said and I agree with you . Fine will now jump into actual topic Smile

Thing is - When iam invoking a my macro i.e. MACROEX(above mentioned) from my REXX1 program the MACROEX is not returning any value for sure the commands and syntax which i wrote are correct but i guess the problem is with only invoking the macroex?

Well i achived my reuirement without Macro but my only intention to know what's going wrong with macro??????

did anyone came with this kind of reuirement?

semigeezer · Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 2:52 am Post subject:

add
address ispexec "CONTROL ERRORS CANCEL"
in the macro to let the session crash on an error OR print zerrsm & zerrlm after any RC >= 8.

Either method should show what the RC20 was caused by. If not there are other techniques but checking return codes is
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Nic Clouston · Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 7:15 am Post subject:

This should get you started - it is a working macro doing what you want apart from letting a calling program access the results. Technically it is incomplete as error checking is almost non-existent.