Tha chart seems to be out of sate as well; it still shows CMS as missing the stream functions.
BTW, these days a PC REXX comparison chart really needs to include OOREXX and Regina to be useful. I'm not sure about REXX on i or p. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of CM Poncelet [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 9:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SPF/SE.... out of business? So too does CTC REXX: Table 3. Comparison of Built-in Functions Availability of Built-in Functions Function SAA COW CMS CTC ABBREV x x x x ABS x x x x ADDRESS x x x x ARG x x x x BITAND x x x x BITOR x x x x BITXOR x x x x B2X x - - x CENTER x x x x CHARIN x x - x CHAROUT x x - x CHARS x x - x <etc.> On 28/04/2021 14:59, Seymour J Metz wrote: > CMS has CHARIN, CHAROUT, CHARS, LINEIN, LINEOUT, LINES AND STREAM. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of > CM Poncelet [[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 11:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: SPF/SE.... out of business? > > So too does CTC REXX: > > Availability of Built-in Functions > > Function SAA COW CMS CTC > C2X x x x x > DATATYPE x x x x > DATE x x x x > DELSTR x x x x > DELWORD x x x x > DIGITS x x x x > D2C x x x x > D2X x x x x > ERRORTEXT x x x x > FORM x x x x > FORMAT x x x x > FUZZ x x x x > INSERT x x x x > LASTPOS x x x x > LEFT x x x x > LENGTH x x x x > LINEIN x x - x > LINEOUT x x - x > LINES x x - x > MAX x x x x > MIN x x x x > OVERLAY x x x x > POS x x x x > QUEUED x x x x > RANDOM x x x x > REVERSE x x x x > RIGHT x x x x > SIGN x x x x > SOURCELINE x x x x > SPACE x x x x > STREAM x - - x <=== > STRIP x x x x > SUBSTR x x x x > SUBWORD x x x x > SYMBOL x x x x > TIME x x x x > TRACE x x x x > TRANSLATE x x x x > TRUNC x x x x > VALUE x x x x > VERIFY x x x x > > Cheers. > > > On 28/04/2021 03:46, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> On 2021-04-27, at 19:53:31, CM Poncelet wrote: >>> Shared variable pools - as in VPUT/VGET <whatever> SHARED - are supported. >>> >>> CTC's SPF/PC REXX supports Mike Cowlishaw's definition, as in his "The >>> REXX Language". >>> >>> Table 3. Comparison of Built-in Functions >>> >>> >>> Availability of Built-in Functions >>> Function SAA COW CMS CTC >>> ... >>> CHARIN x x - x >>> CHAROUT x x - x >>> CHARS x x - x >>> >> CMS is better than that. It supports the STREAM family of functions. >> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zvm/7.1?topic=functions-stream >>> <etc.> >> -- gil >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> . >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > . > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
