Display a panel in Batch and to get the input

MFSubbu · New User Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 11 Location: Bangalore

My Rexx program is running in batch mode and i need to get an input from the user by displaying a panel.

while doing so my program is getting into a loop after Display panel command.

Any sample programs of how to display panels in batch mode would help me. Thanks in Advance.

I got the following information but dono how to proceed on this.

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ISPZDG70/2.14.2.1?DT=20080715202837#HDRBATCH

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:43 am Post subject:

Hello,

MFSubbu · New User Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 11 Location: Bangalore

My Rexx program is copying some pds, do some changes and submit that in ca7 at a particular time. once the changes to the pds are done and the job to submit in ca7 is ready. I need to provide the time and day at which it should be submitted in ca7.

Kindly provide me with some suggestions where i can do the above.

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 9:20 am Post subject:

Hello,

Let's see if i understand.

First your process is going to copy some pds members, make changes to them, and then have CA7 submit them at some predetermined time.

I would expect that the copy and make changes will be done by you or some user. Once the copies/changes are complete, then the job submission could begin.

Seems like CA7 could be set up to submit the job(s) as defined. You could work with the scheduling people to have your job set up to run at come specific time after copying and editing was complete.

I believe you can accomplish this without needing a panel in batch.

expat · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:28 am Post subject:

1) The batch job is a completely seperate address space from youyr online TSO session, so virtually impossible to exchange data and commands to display panels.

Why does the job have to be submited at a user defined time, why not just use a standard time schedule, or even use a dataset trigger from the original running job.

What about getting the submitted batch job to perform the updates after the copies have been made ?

MFSubbu · New User Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 11 Location: Bangalore

Thanks for the help.

We have planned to submit it using a standard time schedule.
One more question from my side.
I have a REXX program REXXA running in batch mode. Once REXXA run fine with RC 0. I should trigger REXXB

Can this be done. If so, Kindly provide me with a sample JCL

expat · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:06 pm Post subject:

Yes it can be done, and has been dicussed many times before in this forum. There is a search button at the top of the page