You don't consider an application giving IRXINIT its own environments and function packages to be REXX-aware?
> Is ooRexx a complete replacement for IBM REXX? OREXX is a complete replacement for SAA REXX on OS/2; Were IBM to do port and integration of ooRexx to TSO, I would expect it to be a complete replacement, at least in TSO and Unix contexts. I don't have expectations either way for System REXX. -- I doubbt that there is a Rexx developer on the planet that would agree with you. 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 3:36 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 Wed, 3 Jul 2024 16:11:45 +0000, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: >. > 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. There is no such thing as REXX-aware. You register your product's REXX callable routines and environment. Your product uses various REXX API's (e.g. variables). Is ooRexx a complete replacement for IBM REXX? With it's Java requirement, does CICS now support calling JAVA programs? How about products that support REXX but not JAVA? ooRexx would be a terrible language for automation because automation loses control of storage management. Those oop features come at a cost. If your product isn't essential then ooRexx is fine but can be a huge problem for system critical products. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
