But now you’ve got me thinking - ooRexx for Linux on Z is bona fide Z arch code. The calls to the OS are obviously different and have the Linux conventions and OS call numbers in them - people are building container extensions for z/OS - how hard could it be to use some of that code and run ooRexx for Z (linux) on a thin (container extension) layer of z/OS - did someone run the native Z ooRexx version in a Docker container yet and, for example, bind mount a conventional z/OS dataset to it?
Some other thoughts are: - the work of integrating the REXX370 interpreter with USS also has been done (and even has linein/lineout) - watch CREXX in a number of months when it jumps from the threaded code compiler to LLVM In general I agree with the sentiments on this list that Object Rexx for z/OS should have been there years ago, but we can’t break the real iron with bare hands. Some attention from the originators would have been welcome. Volunteers welcome, as always: www.rexxla.org Best regards, René. > On 4 Jan 2022, at 15:05, René Jansen <rene.vincent.jan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We have daily builds for ooRExx on Z for Linux on Z on our build machine. > These run on Suse, Red Hat and Ubuntu. JDBC to DB2 works like on every Linux, > to DB2 on z/OS or Linux, Unix, Windows (luw). > There is more on the mainframe than z/OS - although this does not mean that I > would like to see that port. An OO version of Rexx for USS could use the > existing environments for Rexx; the existing OO version of Rexx, NetRexx, > which runs on USS has ‘knowledge’ of conventional MVS filesystems, spool and > other facilities and addressing environments via JZOS. Although, strictly > spoken, ZFS is a z/OS filesystem and the I/O Macros are very alike. > > But I know what you mean and it is a subject of much speculation why Rexx on > z/OS is stuck on 4.02 - or is it? > > Best regards, > > René. > >> On 4 Jan 2022, at 14:15, Jeremy Nicoll <jn.ls.mfrm...@letterboxes.org >> <mailto:jn.ls.mfrm...@letterboxes.org>> wrote: >> >> Presumably an ooREXX compiled under SUSE Linux gives one something >> with no knowledge of, for example, z/OS file systems, let alone any of the >> environments supported under TSO REXX. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
