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| Summary: | zos shell does not display return value of previous command correctly | ||
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| Product: | [Tools] Target Management | Reporter: | Violaine Batthish <batthish> |
| Component: | RSE | Assignee: | dsdp.tm.rse-inbox <tm.rse-inbox> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | Martin Oberhuber <mober.at+eclipse> |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | ankitp, dmcknigh |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows XP | ||
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Forgot to mention that using rseterm does not produce the problem reported here, but use of rseterm is not acceptable to RDz. |
Build Identifier: RSE Core 3.2 (20100607-1030), Eclipse RCP I20100608-0911 Reported by an RDz customer and reproduced. When running a command in the z/OS UNIX shell, the user should be able to enter the following command to display the return value of the previous command echo $? However, in the shell, the return value is always 0, regardless of whether or not it should be. As discussed with Dave McKnight: 1. Problem occurs with other shells (ie Linux) 2. Issue seems to be caused by the fact that the shell issues some echo commands to display the prompt - which removed the desired return code. 3. It might not be possible to get a fix in 3.2.1 timeframe, so the work around is to issue both commands at once: <command>; echo $? 4. Note that if ( ) are used with the work around from 3 in a z/os Unix shell, (<command>; echo $?) then the shell appears to stop responding due to the same problem reported in bug 323262 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enter the following command in the shell: test a = b 2. Then enter the following command: echo $? Expected result: 1 Actual result: 0