I wish it was move prevalent than it is, I do not have it at my current JOB, but when I worked as a contractor to IBM in one of their GDF's, I used it quite HEAVILY to accomplish some very complicated tasks. I did not use every "Stage" from BatchPipes, but I managed to use several.
Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer 3 Information Technology University of Florida (352) 273-1298 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 10:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Rexx Idiom (was: FTP of EBCDIC file) On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 08:26:53 -0400, Hobart Spitz wrote: >How about something like: > >/* REXX */ >"pipe < input.dsn | split after str x0D25 | joincont not trailing x0D25 >| > output.dsn" >exit RC > Looks like Batchpipes. How prevalent is BatchPipes? >On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Martin Packer wrote: > >> Not knowing who the authors were, is it possible they were explaining >> REXX to (what they thought to be) a CLIST-literate audience? TSO/E >> 2.1 would've been a shock to some. :-) >> I suggested as much, perhaps sarcastically. But it's a flawed pedagogic practice. Whether in a natural language or in a computer language, a student becomes fluent by immersion, learning to think in the target language, not by composing in a previously known language and translating to the target language. "One can write FORTRAN in any language." Symptoms include: o not exploiting compound symbols as associative arrays o not using boolean values as first class data objects o misuse of SIGNAL as if it were GOTO. One can speak German in English: "I have been writing Rexx since ten years." One can speak Hindi in English: "Please answer my doubt about Rexx syntax." -- 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
