Re: [Oorexx-users] How long does a RXQUEUE SET persist?

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If your macro completes and you restart it from the THE command line, then
yes, the next time you invoke it the current queue will the be SESSION
queue.  That is a new Rexx program invocation and it defaults to SESSION.

Rick

On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Les Koehler <vm...@ta...> wrote:

> Ok, but that's what DOSTACK.THE does, as I showed earlier:
>
> Test for THE queue and if not set then set it and examine all the lines
> in it. THE commands or macros get executed, other lines get restacked.
>
> SET Session queue and do the same as above.
>
> SET THE queue as the default and exit.
>
> When I run my macro, the default has been reset back to SESSION! If this
> is what is supposed to happen, that means that I can't centrally manage
> queues, right? Instead, each and every macro must SET THE in order to
> stack data for another macro, and that macro must do the same thing in
> order to read the stacked data. Have I got it right?
>
> Les
>
> On 7/6/2014 6:07 AM, Rick McGuire wrote:
> > No, the named queue persists.  The the only thing that resets is the
> > SESSION queue and which queue the program reads and writes to when it
> > starts up.  That is always the session queue.  If you wish to access the
> > data in the THE queue, you just need to issue an RXQUEUE SET operation to
> > to switch the location.  Or alternatively, use an Rexxqueue object to
> work
> > with that queue.
> >
> > Rick
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Les Koehler <vm...@ta...>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I think I'm missing something! When my THESTACK.REX launches THE, does
> >> it immediately get control back and run to termination, thus destroying
> >> the named THE rxqueue?
> >>
> >> If that is true, then how can this statement from the doc be true?:
> >>
> >> ---- clip ----
> >>
> >> "Named queues prevent different Rexx programs that are running in a
> >> single session from interfering with each other. They allow Rexx
> >> programs running in different sessions to synchronize execution and pass
> >> data."
> >>
> >> ---- eclip -----
> >>
> >> So how am I supposed to do this if the THE queue doesn't persist so I
> >> can keep it data separate from some other arbitrary process that might
> >> use SESSION?
> >>
> >> Les
> >>
> >> On 7/5/2014 7:13 PM, Rick McGuire wrote:
> >>> The queue set lasts as long as the top Rexx program in the execution
> >> chain
> >>> is active.  So once you return to the THE command line, the next macro
> >> you
> >>> run starts off with the default queue.  Note that the queue you create,
> >> as
> >>> well as the data within the queue, will persist.  If you set back to
> that
> >>> queue name you will find the lines.  This does not apply for the
> SESSION
> >>> queue, which is created anew each time a Rexx environment is created.
> >>>
> >>> Rick
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Les Koehler <vm...@ta...>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> My thestack.rex is executed by linesize.rex from the command window
> and
> >>>> does:
> >>>> --- clip ---
> >>>> x=rxqueue('Delete','THE')
> >>>> the=rxqueue('CREATE','THE')
> >>>> old=rxqueue('SET','THE')
> >>>> call directory 'C:\MyTHEstuff'
> >>>> parse arg file
> >>>> If pos(';',file)>0 then do
> >>>>      parse arg file ';' remainder
> >>>>      do while pos(';',remainder)>0
> >>>>        parse var remainder more ';' remainder
> >>>>        queue more
> >>>>      End
> >>>>      if remainder\='' then queue remainder
> >>>> End
> >>>> "C:\THE\THEc.exe -a stack_active" , /* Set the DOSTACK? eDITV flag */
> >>>> "-p c:\mythestuff\profile.the" file
> >>>> --- eclip ---
> >>>>
> >>>> to get THE started with a stack. The last thing done by profile.the is
> >>>> DOSTACK.THE, the pertinent part is:
> >>>>
> >>>> ---clip---
> >>>> oldq=rxqueue('Get')
> >>>> 'msg On entry, the qname is:' oldq
> >>>> If oldq\='THE' Then Do
> >>>>      Call rxqueue 'SET','THE'
> >>>>      'msg So it has been set to: THE'
> >>>> End
> >>>> 'msg Anything there?'
> >>>> Call doq 'THE'
> >>>> Call rxqueue 'SET','SESSION'
> >>>> 'msg How about in' rxqueue('Get')
> >>>> Call doq 'SESSION'
> >>>> Call rxqueue 'SET','THE'
> >>>> 'msg qname set back to:' rxqueue('Get')
> >>>> ---eclip---
> >>>>
> >>>> and the stacked commands get executed by *dostack* from the THE qname
> as
> >>>> intended. However, further stack testing from the THE command line
> >>>> indicates that the THE queuename has been set back to SESSION!
> >>>> Is this working as designed? The documentation doesn't give any hint
> of
> >>>> this behavior :-(
> >>>>
> >>>> Les
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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