I'm getting ready to try out running some JRuby on the Mainframe. It's the closest I can get to porting Ruby to z/OS. REXX isn't a half bad language and I can definitely see why it has such a following. For the time when it was introduced, it brought a lot of sanity to programming on the Mainframe. But Ruby is just so enjoyable to program with and it's *so* powerful.
If I have good results, my next target is to run the JRuby against CICS and IMS. :D On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Timothy Sipples < [email protected]> wrote: > Yes, there are other programming languages that can run in a Java Virtual > Machine, including the z/OS Java SDK (and also in application environments > that support Java, such as CICS Transaction Server, IMS Transaction > Manager, DB2 Java stored procedures, and WebSphere Application Server for > z/OS, to pick a few examples). Here are some more programming languages for > JVMs, in no particular order: > > Ruby > http://www.jruby.org > > Javascript. > http://www.mozilla.org/rhino > > Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) > http://www.ibm.com/rational/eglcafe) > > Groovy > http://groovy.codehaus.org > > Python > http://www.jython.org > (Also comes with WebSphere Application Server for z/OS.) > > Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) > http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/wps > (i.e. WebSphere Process Server for z/OS) > > ....And there are many more listed here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages > > - - - - - > Timothy Sipples > IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect > Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific > E-Mail: [email protected] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
