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Issuing Command Processors from REXX Programs

The CA Automation PointAXCREXX program activates the AXC environment and makes it the default environment. The AXC environment allows you to issue CA Automation Point command processors from your REXX programs.

All REXX programs invoked from within CA Automation Point—for example, from rules or from a CA Automation Point command line—run under AXCREXX (and, therefore, access the AXC environment by default):

• To issue a CA Automation Point command processor from a REXX program invoked within CA Automation Point, place the command processor and its associated operands on a separate statement line and enclose them in double quotation marks, as follows:

  "command operands"
  

  For example:

  "SETVAR REXX_MESSAGE (REXX SENT THIS MSG)"
  

• To access the AXC environment and issue a CA Automation Point command processor in any other way (for example, from a visual REXX environment), use REXX's ADDRESS statement as shown:

  ADDRESS AXC "command operands"
  

  For example:

  ADDRESS AXC "SETVAR REXX_MESSAGE (REXX SENT THIS MSG)"