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Primary Commands for the REXX Source Program List

Issue primary commands from the Command field. Use the following primary commands on the REXX Source Program List:

COMPALL or COMPALL NOSOURCE

Compiles all of the REXX programs in the source library. Specify the NOSOURCE keyword if you do not want CA OPS/MVS to save source text statements in the compiled versions.

Note: Specifying NOSOURCE reduces the amount of space taken up by a compiled program.

CA OPS/MVS stores the compiled versions of the programs in the REXX compiled program library, as specified on the REXX Source Library panel.

COMPILE progname or COMPILE progname NOSOURCE

Compiles progname. Specify the NOSOURCE keyword if you do not want CA OPS/MVS to save source text statements in the compiled version.

Note: Specifying NOSOURCE reduces the amount of space taken up by the compiled program.

CA OPS/MVS stores the compiled version of the program in the REXX compiled program library, as specified on the REXX Source Library panel.

EDIT progname

Takes you to ISPF edit, where you can modify progname (same as SELECT). For details, see How to Edit a REXX Program From Option 2.4 in this chapter.

EXECUTE progname

Takes you to the REXX Execute Entry panel, where you can:

• Specify arguments to be passed to progname.
• Set an initial TRACE value for the execution of progname.
• Press Enter to execute progname.
• Press End to cancel execution of progname.

For details, see How to Execute a REXX Program from Option 2.4 in this chapter.

Note: When you issue the EXECUTE command, CA OPS/MVS begins its search for progname in the data sets that are concatenated under OPSEXEC ddname, which are the compiled REXX program libraries. If there are no libraries allocated to OPSEXEC ddname (or if CA OPS/MVS cannot find the program in the allocated libraries), it continues its search in those libraries allocated to SYSEXEC ddname.

LOCATE progname

Scrolls the list so that the line referring to progname is at the top of the panel.

SELECT progname

Takes you to ISPF edit, where you can modify progname (same as EDIT). For details, see How to Edit a REXX Program From Option 2.4 in this chapter.

SORT columnname

Sorts the specified column in default order.

For example, you could issue this command to sort the programs according to the date and time that they were last changed:

SORT CHANGED

The default order varies by column.

Note: Point-and-shoot is enabled to SORT the program list using any column heading. To SORT the program list using the point-and-shoot method, place the cursor on a column heading and press Enter.