----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 11:26
AM
Subject: RE: REXX
Well ok since no one jumped in here,
I wrote a generalized sort utility that does what I needed immediately. If
anyone needs to sort things outside of the normal key-ordered file method, let
me know.
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From: Weatherly, Howard[SMTP:hweatherly@dlsc.dla.mil]
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 11:01 AM
To:
'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject:
REXX
Any of you folks that have worked with
VM/CMS(Xedit) will understand exactly what I want to do here but for those
that have not I will just give a one liner: Rexx and Xedit share a symbiotic
relationship in that it is very easy to switch environments and enter
commands that each understand, Rexx is a high level command interpreter that
makes string manipulation a breeze and Xedit is a powerful
editor.
With this affinity for each other it is quit
simple and commonplace to perform operations on source code, which gets me
to my question:
Does anyone have any CL code that calls
QREXX/QSYS invoking a Rexx program?
-- or --
What I really need/want to do is have the ability
to sort lines that may exist in a source member be it CL or DATA, I want to
choose the fields e.g.... startpos,len or some such! for this I was going to
use Rexx to manipulate the strings and need a way to hook things
together.
I am looking at Rexx because from time to time I
find myself missing the ability to do things to source members but if there
is another way to accomplish this I am open to that also.
Tia, Howard
midrange.com
