Almost all of my Rexx work involves one or more of those host environments,
including obscure ones like REXXIMS.   I don’t see me moving to Python
anytime soon.   But I have very little career runway left, so my preference
doesn’t matter.  :-).

On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 04:31 Rob Scott <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Steve,
>
> The current big advantage REXX has is the extensive list of host
> environments available using ADDRESS.
>
> I suspect over time , that python interfaces to many will appear as
> developers can safely assume its presence on the system.
>
> Rob Scott
> Rocket Software
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> I don't mind flaunting my ignorance, but does python on z provide access to
> other functions and programs?
> In other words, what are the python equivalents for things like:
> attach
> attchmvs
> attchpgm
> bcpii
> bpxwunix
> call
> dsnrexx
> ftpapi
> irrxutil
> link
> linkmvs
> linkpgm
> <others?>
>
> Is there a python/rexx mapping (official or otherwise) similar to JES2/JES3
> command mapping?
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