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Hi,
I am trying to execute DRAW Rexx code supplied as an example in IBM manual below

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/11?topic=examples-sample-db2-rexx-application

Also I have not modified anything in the code, I have just copy pasted from the IBM manual to my mainframe dataset, just changing the special character (^ to /), example
From:
SQLCODE ^= 0
To:
SQLCODE \= 0

And I am getting the below error.



Could someone please help me.

@ line 30.5: say , say, say

Hi,

I tried to run a trace and this is what I could see

DRAW must be invoked from the command line of an ISPF edit session.

Is that true in your case?

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Aech (Wed Dec 01, 2021 8:22 pm)

sergeyken wrote:

DRAW must be invoked from the command line of an ISPF edit session.

Is that true in your case?

Ahh It makes sense now.. It is working now when I tried to run the command inside a dataset. Good catch, thank you

It is an example of doing DB2 stuff, but it should be more robust. It should check for return codes from at least the first ISREDIT statement.

Often times, a RC 20 is an environment problem.

Aech wrote:

sergeyken wrote:

DRAW must be invoked from the command line of an ISPF edit session.

Is that true in your case?

Ahh It makes sense now.. It is working now when I tried to run the command inside a dataset. Good catch, thank you

The DRAW developers had mandatory to add the verification statements at the very beginning: what is the environment where it has been called?
Especially when their sample is supposed to be the source of training for many others.
But people are (almost) always lazy doing these trivial checking, and hence later many, many people start hitting brick walls with their elbows...

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Aech (Wed Dec 01, 2021 8:21 pm)