Yes, on my PCs I only use ooRexx, which has DO OVER and USE ARG; in TSO I'm stuck with classic REXX, which has neither.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 1, 2024 6:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Rexx is quite cool, flexible, powerful, feature-rich, thank you! (Re: z/OS 3.1 Enhancements & Support News On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 21:06:34 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >How do you write an ISPF dialog or EDIT macro in Python. The REXX concept of >registering an environment makes it very useful. > >That said, TSO/E is way behind the xexx world. In ooRexx you can iterate over, >e.g., arrays, stem objects. The cobbler's children are barefoot. > Rexx (no "oo") lacks shell'w: for I in Larry Moe Curly; do ... And, most painful, Rexx lacks a construct to enumerate an associative array ("stem"). -- 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
