Not to put too fine a point on it, but we were never even able to get IBM to port Classic Stream I/O to the z/OS.
-Chip- On 11/19/09 20:04 Earl Hodil said: > Here's a stupid question: Why doesn't IBM do the port? > > Earl > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rick McGuire" <[email protected]> > To: "Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 1:22 PM > Subject: Re: [Oorexx-devel] oorexx on z/os? > > > Yeah, and a lot of people have been saying that for years, but nobody > with z/os skills has ever put any real effort into working on a port. > Without that, it's never going to happen. > > Rick > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Earl Hodil > <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. 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