My bad. I misinterpreted what I read. I still think it would be killer on z/os, though.
earl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick McGuire" <[email protected]> To: "Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:56 PM Subject: Re: [Oorexx-devel] oorexx on z/os? I'm not aware of anybody getting oorexx to run on z/os. It does run on z/linux, but that's a horse of a different color. Rick On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Earl Hodil <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I had occasion this past year to convert a classic REXX program that ran > on > z/os to an oorexx program that ran on linux for one of my customers. Most > things converted just fine. The work centered around the I/O interfaces, > sockets and files. The sockets weren't too bad, but there are some > differences. The files, though, required a wholesale rewrite. > > Now I have sniffed around the archives enough to know that somebody has > oorexx up and running on z/os. I suspect that it is entirely a creature of > the unix side of the house. Is there any thought to making oorexx the > default interpreter on z/os? I know that right now it would break a lot of > programs, and not just because of EXECIO. I have a product, REXXTOOLS/MVS > that is pretty widespread and would need to be accounted for. > > I just wanted you to know that I stand ready to help in any way that I > can. > > Sincerely, > > Earl Hodil > Open Software Technologies > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 > 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
