Yes, I know that TSO support requires heavy lifting, and not just for fopen().
The problem is that those "more modern" languages don't support the close integration of scripts to applications that REXX supports. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of David Crayford [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2021 2:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Coding for the future On 22/06/2021 3:21 am, Seymour J Metz wrote: > When someone ports OOREXX to z/OS and adds TSO support. Never going to happen. I ported ooRexx to z/OS UNIX over a decade ago and getting it to work in TSO is a heavy lift. It doesn't use fopen() so needs a lot of patching to work with MVS data sets. It's not worth the effort. There are better, more modern languages available on z/OS now so it's only the diehard REXXers that are interested. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of > David Crayford [[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2021 9:40 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Coding for the future > > On 21/06/2021 2:08 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> Do you want to report every error, or leave after the first one? >> I wish Rexx supported multi-line strings. >> >> I wish Rexx would let me: >> do List = "ssn ssx stm wcn wcx wln wlx wld" while List<>"" >> parse var List L List >> /* etc. */ > When will REXX support iterators and generators like Python, Ruby, Lua etc > > for word in "ssn ssx stm wcn wcx wln wlx wld".split() > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
