. > z/OS REXX on the other hand automatically integrates into most available environments.
No. Various applications are REXX-aware, and they would continue to be so were IBM to make ooRexx a supported scripting language. -- 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 Jon Perryman <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2024 1:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Rexx is quite cool, flexible, powerful, feature-rich, thank you! (Re: z/OS 3.1 Enhancements & Support News On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 13:28:20 +0000, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: >The landscape would be quite different were IBM to provide legacy streams, > port ooRexx to TSO and include BSF4ooRexx as part of z/OS. > On my PCs I've pretty much abandoned SAA Rexx. Nothing motivates IBM to port OOREXX. It is a waste of IBM manpower because it was designed for UNIX with very limited address environments and a small user community which means it's usefulness is very limited. E.g. It's certainly better than shell scripts but it hasn't replaced them. Then comes the question about integration which I'm guessing doesn't include automatic integration with SAP, PeopleSoft, various databases and much more. z/OS REXX on the other hand automatically integrates into most available environments. IBM REXX was never designed to build complicated applications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
