RE: REXX -- MIDRANGE-L

Title: RE: REXX

Nothing that life altering, I simply needed a sort within SEU and was reminiscent of the (clearing throat) good old mainframe days with ISPF and XEDIT where you could do a bit more with the editor. What happened was I wrote a little CL to extract the file names for a reorg and later discovered that there were duplicates! (The operator was not happy after 7 hours of reorg!) so since they were not in "people order" I needed to sort them and drop the duplicates.

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From: Peter Dow[SMTP:pcdow@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 8:22 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: REXX

Sounds like you're getting ready to rewrite the FMTDTA command.

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From: Weatherly, Howard
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
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?

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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