In <listserv%201011190929367313.0...@bama.ua.edu>, on 11/19/2010 at 09:29 AM, Robert Birdsall <bsqu...@umich.edu> said:
>Personally, I think address MVS ought to cover basic OS functions >like catalog, Not if that name is already taken. >while 'hosts' should be able to be provided for other functions, >e.g. address They've been able to do that for decades; the problem is convincing them to actually do so. >z/OS Rexx allows for the addition of function packages. Does it >allow for the addition of (non-IBM) hosts? It provides the interface; the host has to initialize it and provide supporting code. >As a nonstandard extension to >Rexx, it would also be nice to terminate a host interface, That wouldn't make a lot of sense, because it's the host that call REXX in the first place. What would it mean to cancel, e.g., address ISREDIT in the middle of an edit macro? >Note that the z/OS Rexx implementation is somewhat non-standard as >is. Is the CMS version any closer to the ANSI standard than the TSO/E version? >Hmm.. should this discussion move to a Rexx list? I'd say that IBM-MAIN is more appropriate than TSO-REXX when you're talking about more than just TSO. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html