Certainly oorexx on z/Linux is useful, and easier than oorexx on z/OS, but it would be great if IBM would support it cross platform, or at least for CMS and TSO.
Both HFS (RIP) and zFS are file systems in the Unix sense, but oorexx only needs to be aware of the Unix system calls for paths. Of course, classes for things like SPOOL access would be nice. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of René Jansen [rene.vincent.jan...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 4, 2022 2:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS 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> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
