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bolineni ravi · Beginner Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 4 Topics: 3

Hi all,

I was asked to develop a utility in REXX which takes input as program name and library name(where program resides) in main screen. And the output needs to be on the new screen in which the following details needs to be displayed.

1) what copybooks are used by the program
2) total number of lines in the program
3) what are all the called programs
4) how many calls for DB2/CICS modules.. and so on...

I am very new to REXX. And i need to start from scratch...I am working under TSO environment..

Could you please help me out which books should help me in this regard for developing screens and develop programs using REXX.

I am waiting for ur reply...

Always thanking you,
Ravi.

superk · Advanced Joined: 19 Dec 2002 Posts: 684 Topics: 5

z/OS V1R7.0 TSO/E REXX Reference.

z/OS V1R7.0 TSO/E Command Reference.

z/OS V1R7.0 ISPF Dialog Developer's Guide.

z/OS V1R7.0 ISPF Edit and Edit Macros.

z/OS V1R7.0 ISPF Services Guide.

raji229 · Beginner Joined: 07 Aug 2006 Posts: 5 Topics: 2

HI bolineni ravi,
Even I am looking for such kind of a software component which would identify the called programs,copybooks..do you have any strategy or some methodology to accomplis this..

Pls share it with me if you know. Thanks in advance

coolman · Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:47 am Post subject:

Ravi,

I can't understand two things in your question:

semigeezer · Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:49 pm Post subject:

This type of software is available commercially already. See http://www-306.ibm.com/software/os/zseries/ztransform/wsaa.html for one that does this quite well.

If you want to write your own, I believe you will find that parsing is not always trivial, but the easiest way may be to use the ISPF editor and a set of macros. Or you may be able to run the module through the compiler with appropriate options and scan the listing. In addition, if you are really searching for 'lines of code' instead of lines in the program file, then 1) you need to define what a line of code is and 2) the person who asked you to do this is an idiot because lines of code is a useless metric.