To be honest, if I wanted to do what Vig wanted it would be in C or Assembler 
on OMVS

Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
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> On Apr 19, 2014, at 11:39 AM, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I've got a drop in replacement for all of those environments bar SDSF with 
> Lua and I'll add multi-threaded programming, HTTP, websockets, XML, JSON, 
> SOAP, regular expressions and a whole lot more. In a z/OS UNIX environment 
> luaposix http://luaposix.github.io/luaposix/docs/index.html covers a lot more 
> than USS REXX. The killer punch is that Lua executes at speeds that REXX can 
> only dream of. Did I mention closures, functional programming, OO etc,etc. 
> 
> Runs perfectly on z/OS and will be available soon. 
> 
>> On 19/04/2014, at 10:57 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 19:20:14 -0400, Scott Ford  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Have you looked at Open Object RExx, it has a socket server piece, contact 
>>> me offline...
>> Much of the value of Rexx is in the host command environments it
>> supports.  So, how many of the following are available in OORexx?:
>> 
>>   address TSO
>>           ISPEXEC
>>           ISREDIT
>>           SYSCALL
>>           SH
>>           MVS
>>           LINK
>>           LINKPGM
>>           LINKMVS
>>           ATTACH
>>           ATTCHPGM
>>           ATTCHMVS
>>           SDSF
>>           (your other favorites)
>> 
>> ???  I suppose the answer might be:
>> o Any; it's a drop-in replacement for IBM's Rexx.
>> o Any, if you invoke OORexx with the correct Environment Block.
>> - Are ISPF EDIT macros and panel scripts in OORexx supported?
>> o Any, if you code the support yourself.  Ugh!
>> 
>> Can OORexx be invoked alike from TSO, shell, and JCL?
>> 
>> Extra credit if OORexx and IBM Rexx can be freely mixed in
>> SYSPROC/SYSEXEC.
>> 
>> -- gil
>> 
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