I think that is a very valid requirement. Due to the platform it is running on, the JSR223 interface would also be usable for that purpose, although that is also rather light on retaining state at the moment. It will not be in the next release (4.02) because that is functionally closing, but I’ll be back by the time 4.03 hits the street.
René. > On 9 Jan 2022, at 19:00, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > > What I want to do is to register environments and function packages in a > manner similar to what REXX supports, including retaining context. For > instance, I would like for an editor to be able to call an edit macro written > in NetRexx and allow the macro to issue commands and queries back to the > editor, with the editor able to set variables within the macro. > > > -- > 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: Sunday, January 9, 2022 5:38 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Ad NetRexx (Re: Ad programming features (Re: ... Re: Top 8 > Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS > > Yes, we are working on that. If you can tell me what you want to see, we’ll > have a go. > In the meantime, the case in which you just quote the command you would like > to be executed, works very well. > > Best regards, > > René. > > >> On 9 Jan 2022, at 18:34, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: >> >> I downloaded the new documentation, and address doesn't seem to have the >> same semantics as in REXX. >> >> >> -- >> 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: Sunday, January 9, 2022 3:05 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >> Subject: Re: Ad NetRexx (Re: Ad programming features (Re: ... Re: Top 8 >> Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS >> >> Hi Shmuel. >> >> NetRexx has ADDRESS. It was added by Marc Remes in release 4.01. It can >> address any executable on your system. Subsequent versions will add ADDRESS >> WITH for collections and network. >> This was a syntactical addition, the runtime contains, for years and years >> already, the package org.netrexx.address, which has class OSProcess with >> method exec(), outtrap(command=Rexx) (where could that have come from?) and >> event for lines of output. >> But we decided to make this look more like Rexx. >> >> Best regards, >> >> René. >> >>> On 9 Jan 2022, at 11:29, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: >>> >>> FSVO follows. NetRexx doesn't have the concept of routing bare expressions >>> to the default environment. In fact, it doesn't have the address statement >>> at all, unless there has been a subsequent addition to the language. >>> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN