@Timothy, is that a Yes or a No? There has been a lot of discussion here about Rexx versus Python: "Why are you still using that old-fashioned Rexx when Python is so much more wonderful?" There are several answers, valid IMHO, including developer familiarity. But the key objection to Python, for third-party and similar software that is intended for use at multiple, often as-yet-unidentified sites, is the one I cite below: "if we write it in Python than any potential customer will have to download the Python run-time, and some customers are extremely reluctant to download and install non-standard (FSVO non-standard) software." (For Rexx, the run-time is a standard part of a z/OS install.)
Is it your opinion, is it the community's opinion, that that objection has now gone away or is going away as time passes by and more and more shops are on a post-7/1/2024 download of z/OS? Charles On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:10:13 +0000, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote: >Charles Mills wrote: >>Am I reading this correctly that the "they would have to download >>it and some shops won't do that" objection to the use of Python for >>third-party software goes away, at least for customers with z/OS >>systems ordered after July 1? > >These 3 products are ?bypassable requisites? effective July 1, 2024. See >Marna?s blog post for more details: > >https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/chandni-dinani2/2024/06/26/zos-modernization-new-bypassable-products?communityKey=200b84ba-972f-4f79-8148-21a723194f7f ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
