No, but you are welcome. René.
> On 4 Jan 2022, at 15:41, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Are there REXXLA projects for oorexx on CMS and TSO? > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of > René Jansen [[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 4, 2022 2:23 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS > > But now you’ve got me thinking > > - ooRexx for Linux on Z is bona fide Z arch code. The calls to the OS are > obviously different and have the Linux conventions and OS call numbers in them > - people are building container extensions for z/OS - how hard could it be to > use some of that code and run ooRexx for Z (linux) on a thin (container > extension) layer of z/OS > - did someone run the native Z ooRexx version in a Docker container yet and, > for example, bind mount a conventional z/OS dataset to it? > > Some other thoughts are: > - the work of integrating the REXX370 interpreter with USS also has been done > (and even has linein/lineout) > - watch CREXX in a number of months when it jumps from the threaded code > compiler to LLVM > > In general I agree with the sentiments on this list that Object Rexx for z/OS > should have been there years ago, but we can’t break the real iron with bare > hands. Some attention from the originators would have been welcome. > Volunteers welcome, as always: > http://secure-web.cisco.com/1uuWdxGHJAWLNgS1oIUWbl3MiOGFFEBDF8CQN-I24OUQd2lOPYj3heScCRgw92_DvZH6K6xhhFjNqUbVp2W-xwwgh1OorMVRUPdQIjM43hiUqIW9Hu_VYukKfzooDiGVsJrqbgFbQU8HcwPAC4btzkpGuiTHU9lQA3NE9T4Tbf3oBEpIfEHhvNtYm2NsLlsNU3Wa6RY1szQgmjHdzjIX9hqhloLzsmyZpclmjEuJkKtmM9IiVUc_QOkOk32TwG_TwiEs5zp4sur4ZZyubjWlk6-DNbQjYwVmfd9lBp4PqVn3bz_Gho5GyEqRnRwrignDxlmeWkMNkcUTNNIGC4VtcIiF8BfGiNN3hhLz0BPfddNqHhMWSa6PWVP2wjppKu3HzFTCc7OmrhFmrP9tPHXxGNg7TtFbWUI9wrLT7hXxDarEwO86imGomxMcpi7kOdtSb/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rexxla.org > > Best regards, > > René. > >> On 4 Jan 2022, at 15:05, René Jansen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> We have daily builds for ooRExx on Z for Linux on Z on our build machine. >> These run on Suse, Red Hat and Ubuntu. JDBC to DB2 works like on every >> Linux, to DB2 on z/OS or Linux, Unix, Windows (luw). >> There is more on the mainframe than z/OS - although this does not mean that >> I would like to see that port. An OO version of Rexx for USS could use the >> existing environments for Rexx; the existing OO version of Rexx, NetRexx, >> which runs on USS has ‘knowledge’ of conventional MVS filesystems, spool and >> other facilities and addressing environments via JZOS. Although, strictly >> spoken, ZFS is a z/OS filesystem and the I/O Macros are very alike. >> >> But I know what you mean and it is a subject of much speculation why Rexx on >> z/OS is stuck on 4.02 - or is it? >> >> Best regards, >> >> René. >> >>> On 4 Jan 2022, at 14:15, Jeremy Nicoll <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Presumably an ooREXX compiled under SUSE Linux gives one something >>> with no knowledge of, for example, z/OS file systems, let alone any of the >>> environments supported under TSO REXX. >> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
