On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:51:36 +0000, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Rexx didn't resurface under MVS until TSO/E. > >Later than that. >TSO/E came out with MVS/XA. >REXX came (back?) with MVS/ESA 3.1.0e (circa 1989). >I remember that for two reasons: >1. I was reading Colishaw's REXX book while my ex was getting prepped for a Caesarean for my first son. >2. I had just started at a new company and had a manager complain about the overhead of REXX under TSO, and I had to 'prove' it was cost-effective. > > I first used REXX under MVS/XA 2.2.0. It was optional though. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
