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Hi everyone,

I am very new to REX. I have one requirement. I have to trigger a JCL using REX.

When executed, it should first asked for
"Please Enter the input file"
After inputting the file name it should ask for output file,
"please enter output file"

Also, how to code so that it can be sent to my JCL particular step, these two DSN name..

Thank You

It depends. Where does your JCL come from, and how does your process expect these values to be passed?

JCL doesn't come from anywhere. When he rex program is executed, it will trigger the JCL.

Now I want to pass Input and Outfile file name during execution to this JCL.

zhinghur wrote:... JCL doesn't come from anywhere. ...

JCL always comes from somewhere. I'm sure there are methods for your Rexx exec to create a small JCL job that contains a JOB statement and an EXEC statement containing symbols with your dataset names that calls a JCL procedure that does the heavy lifting. The created job would look something like this -
MYPROC in your PROBLIB would look something like this -
Obviously the MYPROC procedure would be more complex, but that's beyond the scope of this topic.

There are other ways to do this. For example, I suspect the major job scheduling packages should be able to create and submit the job without you writing a line of Rexx code. This method would be required in virtually all production shops, and this is where your research should lead you, not trying to reinvent a most likely deformed wheel.

When he rex program is executed, it will trigger the JCL.

Complete and utter garbage. The JCL was generated by the REXX (not rex) program, or the JCL was read from a data set, or the JCL came from some other source -- but JCL does not magically get "triggered" out of thin air. And what do you mean by "trigger" anyway -- created? submitted? executed? converted and interpreted? something else?

Sorry, actually I divided the part of requirement. So, couldn't be specific.

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enrico-sorichetti wrote:

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( usually very dark )

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Hello,

Sorry, actually I divided the part of requirement. So, couldn't be specific.

What . . .
If you cannot be specific, how can anyone help. Indeed, how can you even think about implementing. . .
If you will take the time to explain what you really want others here have done the same or very similar, but what you have provided gives a "helper" nothing. . .

Please find my 7th and 8th posts here, which will give the clear pleasure.

Where are we to find these 7th and 8th posts "here" - you don't have 8 posts in this topic that i can see (until now this topic only has 7 posts).