On Nov 18, 2007, at 4:51 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
Rexx didn't resurface under MVS until TSO/E.
Later than that.
TSO/E came out with MVS/XA.
REXX came (back?) with MVS/ESA 3.1.0e (circa 1989).
I remember that for two reasons:
1. I was reading Colishaw's REXX book while my ex was getting
prepped for a Caesarean for my first son.
2. I had just started at a new company and had a manager complain
about the overhead of REXX under TSO, and I had to 'prove' it was
cost-effective.
IIRC, REXX under VM was available around 1978.
Tedd:
My memory thought in was in 1991(for XA) (early if I remember
correctly) I remember having to sit on it for a 2 month wait as a pre
req PTF was PE and it took that long to get the fix. We weren't the
first on the block but close. My memory of that time is a bit cloudy
but it could have become available as much as an year earlier. I do
remember distinctly looking on IBMLINK daily for closure of a key PE
PTF. Even then it was difficult to get the application people
interested in it they couldn't even get interested in clists though.
Ed
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