On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 09:25:03 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >Have they added the language enhancements in OOREXX, or at least those >in the ANSI standard? > What are the enhancements in the ANSI standard?
On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 11:16:21 -0400, Scott Ford wrote: > >I am reading through this thread and i am confused . What did the IBM >announcement say about z/OS EXECIO ? I see they are talking about VBS ..was >tat the total announcement or did I miss something ? > Don't confuse an announcement, which discusses VBS, with a response to a SHARE Requirement, which discusses VSAM. On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 14:37:42 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > >Rexx already does support VSAM, though not natively with EXECIO. ... > I don't believe that EXECIO is part of either Cowlishaw's specification of Rexx or of the ANSI standard. Nor is it native to Rexx under CMS. Rather, it was a CMS utility that antedated Rexx, and the CMS Rexx implementers took a shortcut and substituted EXECIO rather than coding the standard Rexx I/O. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
