Re: [netrexx-pipelines] Migrate OS/2 pipelines to NetRexx Pipes

[René J. <rvj...@xs...>]

Hi Leslie,

Ah I see - no, that was unrelated to SMF, it had to do with filtering the RSS feed from the ooRexx builds. But thank you for the pointer, I wondered already if I could take pieces off of the end without all this reversing.

René.

> On 22 Jun 2022, at 22:17, J Leslie Turriff <jlt...@ma...> wrote:
> 
> Jeff,
> 	In a post to oor...@li..., René provided a sample pipeline to 
> process z/OS SMF records using the nrx specs stage.  I thought you might like to be aware 
> of another feature of the CMS specs stage that could be incorporated into nrx specs, so 
> I'm sending it to you as well.
> -----------
> René
> 	I see that in this pipeline you use reverse with specs to trim trailing parts of your 
> records.  I understand that the nrx specs stage does not yet completely emulate the CMS 
> specs stage, but I hope that as it is improved it will fully support CMS-type inputRange 
> notation.
> 	In CMS/TSO Pipelines, Author's Edition, pp. 165, 166 we see that
> |	"An inputRange can contain a negative number; this specifies that the count is from the
> | end of the record rather than from the beginning:
> |	word -2 1
> |	The general form of a range consists of two numbers separated a semicolon. Thus, there
> | is a third idiom to refer to the entire record: 1;-1. When both numbers are positive,
> | there is no difference between using semicolon and using a hyphen to delimit the 
> numbers.  When the two numbers have the same sign, the first number must be less than or 
> equal to the second one; it is an error to specify an ending column that is before the 
> beginning one.  (Recall that -2 is less than -1.) When the numbers have different signs, 
> a null input field is used when the beginning position is after the end position:
> |	word 2;-2    1
> 
> 	Thus, your pipeline could eventually use
> |    :
> | | specs 7;-2 1
> |    :
> | | specs 77;-10 1
> |    :
> 
> Leslie
> 
> On 2022-06-22 07:45:43 Jeff Hennick wrote:
>> I am in the process of adding FIELDS (and an enhanced FS/WS) to SPECS.
>> Currently having problems remembering how to get the stage to work in my
>> testing. Mike, I am using, and expanding, your idea/suggestion on changing
>> the spaces to something else that is not already in the record, etc.  Thank
>> you! Jeff Hennick
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