Re: Interpreting Explicit Decimal Numbers

IBM announced VM/SP Release 3 with REXX on February 1, 1983 and didn't announce TSO/E Version 2 with REXX until April 19, 1988, so I'd be surprised if IBM was working on them concurrently. And, yes, I prefer REXX to CLIST, EXEC and EXEX2, although it is missing a few things. -- Shmuel

Re: Interpreting Explicit Decimal Numbers

No, what IBM turned over to RexxLA was Object REXX (OREXX). IBM originally made REXX available for CMS in 1983 and for TSO in 1988, while IBM didn't make REXX available for OS/2 1.3 until 1991. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: Interpreting Explicit Decimal Numbers

On Feb 21, 2022, at 10:12:49, Tom Marchant wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:33:25 -0700, Bob Raicer wrote: > >> I didn't have any of the IBM z/VSE publications on my system, so I. >> GIYF. You could get that, free, from: If it clutters

Re: Interpreting Explicit Decimal Numbers

Amazing man. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Monday, February 21, 2022 9:25 AM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Interpreting Explicit Decimal Numbers On 2/21/2022 9:19

Re: Interpreting Explicit Decimal Numbers

On 2/21/2022 9:19 AM, Dave Clark wrote: Yep, that is why REXX is "restructured." "Restructured" from what? you might ask... As I understand it, an IBMer was dissatisfied with CMS EXEC and CMS EXEC2 and wrote CMS REXX to supersede them both. Not just "an IBMer." The one and only Mike

Re: Interpreting Explicit Decimal Numbers

"IBM Mainframe Assembler List" wrote on 02/21/2022 12:12:49 PM: > Just to be clear, the original implementation of ReXX was for VM in about > 1980, well before OS/2. Yep, that is why REXX is "restructured." "Restructured" from what? you might ask... As I understand it, an IBMer

Re: Interpreting Explicit Decimal Numbers

On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:33:25 -0700, Bob Raicer wrote: >I didn't have any of the IBM z/VSE publications on my system, so I >used citations from the z/OS publication and the corresponding >publication regarding the Rexx implementation for Microsoft Windows >and Linux. The latter two are produced

Re: Interpreting Explicit Decimal Numbers

Well, I just found out there is a 250-line limit for this list service. So, I had to shorten my response... "IBM Mainframe Assembler List" wrote on 02/18/2022 08:05:07 PM: > I'm not clear on what you mean by "precision" and "scale" when you > say: > > "transform a zoned-decimal