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Hi all,

I have a very simple macro to read the data from command line.

The below is in a member ‘PARSE’.

/* rexx */
arg input_file
say input_file

I execute this as an edit macro inside the same member as shown:
parse abc

This does not show the input “abc” that I have sent in command line.
Instead it does show a blank line.

Am I missing something here?
Please let me know if you find something wrong in this code/macro execution procedure.

Thanks,
Venkatesh.

That cannot be an ISPF Edit Macro until you add the line "ISREDIT MACRO", and an ISPF Edit Macro doesn't take parameters that way.

Read the ISPF Edit & Edit Macro reference manual