On 3/30/20 12:59 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
The OMVS 3270 shell always struck me as having been written by somebody who
didn't understand either the 3270 or VTAM.
As to vi, can I easily script it with REXX, or at least Perl?
If you're going to use modern open source on USS:
* Learn to use SSH with keys for login vs. password.
* Learn to set your terminal.
* Learn the basics of bash and shells in general.
* Install and use vim, the modern replacement for vi (yes it takes its
own kind of scripting)
* Learn regex programs like
o grep
o sed
* and. learn. Python.
* Get yourself a Linux box (z/Linux is just fine) as a reference platform.
PS I'm not catcalling from a distance, I was doing all this on z/OS in 2016.
Time to catch up with IBM i.
Yes, it's a lurch, but it's a lurch forward for your practice and community.
It's organic, it's healthy, and it's not going away.
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www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe
www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan
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