I would consider "A REXX EXEC", "a REXX program" and "a REXX script" to be essentially the same usage and quite different from the usage "a REXX" with no following noun. It's the latter that I never heard in VM circles, and I was curious as to whether it existed in any VM shop.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Mark Pace [pacemainl...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 7:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX") Long time VMer - I've always said "A Rexx Exec". Not sure why I don't like the term script. On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 5:59 PM Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote: > NOT interested in arguing about what’s “correct”, just curious about > possible theories here. > > > > I started using Rexx (then REXX) on CMS (VM/SP) when it was released to > the external world in 1982 on CMS. At the time, we already had EXEC and > EXEC 2, and programs written in those were always referred to as “an > EXEC”/“EXECs”. Nobody but nobody [that I ever encountered, doh] said “An > EXEC program” or “An EXEC 2 program”. Then Rexx came along, and nobody ever > said “A Rexx”: it was “A Rexx program”. > > > > Meanwhile, in TSO there was CLIST, and people said “A CLIST”. Nobody (I > think?) said “A CLIST program”. Then Rexx came to TSO and people there > often say “A Rexx”. Which is perfectly reasonable, and parallel to the > three predecessor usages. > > > > My question—and it’s kinda buggin’ me—is why VMers said “A Rexx program”! > My first theory was that the IBM Rexx documentation refers to “Rexx > programs”, which it does. BUT so does the EXEC 2 reference. (Ok, it calls > them “EXEC 2 programs”, not “Rexx programs”, for the pedantic 😊) So I > don’t think that theory flies. > > > > I’m stumped. It might just be an unexplainable linguistic oddity, but I’d > love to hear others’ theories. > > > > ...phsiii > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent Mainline’s positions or opinions Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
