There's a package that lets oorexx applications invoke Java classes.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of David Crayford [dcrayf...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 10:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: strange python announcement Maybe! If you can only run from z/OS UNIX a lot of people might choose the JVM and Groovy, Kotlin which have the entire Java ecosystem available (including JZOS). Whatever flicks your switch I suppose. On 2020-03-29 6:14 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Sounds to me like an argument for Perl. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of > David Crayford [dcrayf...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 2:22 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: strange python announcement > > On 2020-03-29 7:42 AM, Charles Mills wrote: >> I'm looking at Python on the Rocket site. >> >> Practically speaking, is Python usable from TSO or only from the UNIX >> command prompt? That is > USS only as it's enhanced ASCII (file tagging). You could call it from > TSO using bpxwunix or something similar. > >>> There's no advantage to REXX anymore, as fine a language as it is. >> In Rexx under TSO, I can allocate couple of datasets and then run a "legacy >> MVS" (you know what I mean) program. Is that practical in Python? > There is no legacy MVS data set support in Rockets Python port. There > have been several internal discussions about it and it's on the radar. I > don't work > on ported tools so I don't know any more. > >> Not picking fights here -- inquiring minds just want to know. > Truth is a lot of the guys using Python on z/OS don't know REXX and > hardly ever login to TSO. They use a command shell, store their source > code in the z/OS UNIX file system > and use Git as the SCM. If they want to run a TSO command they can use > the z/OS UNIX "tsocmd" command with scripting features very similar to > outtrap in TSO REXX. > > Maybe the target audience for Python on z/OS just isn't the old guys who > have used REXX for 30+ years. > > >> Charles >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On >> Behalf Of Jack J. Woehr >> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 7:35 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >> Subject: Re: strange python announcement >> >> On 3/27/20 4:28 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: >>> What's a nerd to do? LUA, Rexx or Python? >> Python. It's moving forward, great module support, easy syntax. >> >> There's no advantage to REXX anymore, as fine a language as it is. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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
