Calling external executable program

[mcna]

Help,

okay, i have a program which in somecase will call another external c++ program,
i just dont know how to do this.
Both of my program are in my CHRISM.LOADLIB (my user)

reading the zos manuals, system() should do the job. there are two different ways i can format the system() command

sprintf(line,"PGM=PROGRAM2,PARM='%s'",Passed);
rc = system(line);

sprintf(line,"PROGRAM2 %s",Passed);
rc = system(line);

do i need to put something in the JCL, or do i need to do a program linkage
extern "REFERENCE" {
void PROGRAM2(char *);
}

Any help would be good.
Many thxs

[mcna]

Dont worry everyone, i have done it myself

i used system(), but i used

"call 'prefix.program' 'arg1' 'arg2' 'arg3'

and so on.
'prefix.program'
can also be 'prefix.dataset(program)'

a thread with only me

[CICS Guy]

Thanks for reposting the answer, it sure had me stumped.......

[mcna]

it was in the C/C++ programming guide for zos v1r6.0

under redirecting streams under zos, just really luck i found it

[mcna]

Spoke 2 soon,

it allows me to use this to call from ispf command shell, but not if i pass it 2 system()

so any help would be nice

[mcna]

This is drivin me mad,

y is it so difficult, to run a program from another

[dick scherrer]

Hello,

y is it so difficult, to run a program from another

I suspect that it is not difficult once you know how. . .

What error are you getting?

What resources are available to the "shell" that are not available to the run with problems? I suspect there may be one or more datasets missing from the batch run?

but not if i pass it 2 system()

I do not understand what this means

[mcna]

i found the problem,
this will work normal but
my environment i am using. i am using one of the adcd from ibm

with posix(ON) so the system() doesnt pass the command to the tso shell, but it passes it to the unix shell so it fails

[mcna]

this should work "call 'prefix.program' 'arg1' 'arg2' 'arg3'

and so on.
'prefix.program'
can also be 'prefix.dataset(program)'

[dick scherrer]

Thank you for posting your solution

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