Re: Need tutorial

[Mark Zelden]

On Sat, 28 Dec 2013 22:28:08 +0530, baby eklavya  wrote:

>Hello ,
>
>Check out the books given below .
>
>Rexx Programmer's Reference by Howard
>Fosdick
>.
>
>Practical Usage of TSO REXX by Anthony S.
>Rudd
>.
>
>Rexx With Os/2, Tso & Cms Features: Quick Reference Guide by Gabriel F.
>Gargiulo
>.
>
>The REXX Language: A Practical Approach to Programing by Michail
>Cowlishaw
>.
>
>REXX in the TSO environment by Gabriel F
>Gargiulo
>.
>
>Programming in REXX by Charles
>Daney
>.
>
>The Rexx Handbook (J Ranade Ibm Series) by Gabriel Goldberg and Philip H.
>Smith
>.
>
>REXX Tools and Techniques by Barry K.
>Nirmal
>.
>
>Regards,
>Baby
>
>
>
>
>On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Charles Mills  wrote:
>
>> Actually CMS on VM better for rexx than z/OS.
>>
>> Charles
>> Composed on a mobile: please excuse my brevity
>>
>> Charles Mills  wrote:
>>
>> >Rexx is easy to learn. You need Cowlishaw's book and a system to play on:
>> z/OS or rexx for Windows or Linux. COBOL will be a little tougher.
>> >
>> >Charles
>> >Composed on a mobile: please excuse my brevity
>> >
>> >Rajesh Kumar  wrote:
>> >
>> >>Hi,
>> >>
>> >>I need a good tutorial for rexx and cobol. PleasePlease provide me.
>> >>


I have an abridged training doc on my web site and CBT file 434 that I've used
for some clients.   If you  already know CLIST, I have a nice little conversion
chart at the end also.

URL for my web site is below.

Cheers,

Mark
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Re: Need tutorial

[John McKown]

Nobody has mentioned much about COBOL. Depending on what the OP wants to
learn, and his home system. He might be interested in GNU COBOL (formerly
OpenCOBOL) at http://www.opencobol.org . Or, perhaps even more so, zCOBOL,
at http://www.z390.org/zcobol/ . zCOBOL runs on Linux and Windows. It is
very similar to z/OS Enterprise COBOL, a good way to learn COBOL on the
cheap (only costs $0.00!). But Wait! There's More! It also comes with a
CICS emulator as well. Now what would you expect to pay?!? It's still the
low, low cost of $0.00!

What's the catch? It's written in Java. So you do need to have Java
installed on your desktop. However, I personally rather like Java. I also
enjoy hitting myself in the head with a nurf hammer. 



On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> wrote:

> In <8988413032026434.wa.herowith.zerogmail@listserv.ua.edu>, on
> 12/28/2013
>at 08:28 AM, Rajesh Kumar  said:
>
> >I need a good tutorial for rexx and cobol.
>
> REXX Reference Summary Handbook, ISBN 0-9639854-2-6
>
> REXX in 21 Days
>
> Both out of print, alas.
>
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Re: Need tutorial

[Sambataro, Anthony (NIH/NBS) [E]]

These may be helpful:

http://www.kyla.co.uk/other/rexx1.htm

http://www.csis.ul.ie/cobol/


-Original Message-
From: Rajesh Kumar [mailto:herowith.z...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2013 9:29 AM
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Subject: Need tutorial

Hi,

I need a good tutorial for rexx and cobol. PleasePlease provide me.

thanks

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Re: Need tutorial

[Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)]

In <8988413032026434.wa.herowith.zerogmail@listserv.ua.edu>, on
12/28/2013
   at 08:28 AM, Rajesh Kumar  said:

>I need a good tutorial for rexx and cobol.

REXX Reference Summary Handbook, ISBN 0-9639854-2-6

REXX in 21 Days

Both out of print, alas.
 
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Re: Need tutorial

[Charles Mills]

You can say that again!

Charles

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Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2013 2:44 PM
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Subject: Re: Need tutorial

Lizette's point is the crucial one.  I,. for one, would make quite different
recommendations to a novice and to an experienced programmer who just
happened not to know REXX and/or COBOL.

What you know in detail may even be important.  I recently taught REXX to my
teenager group, who already knew PL/I and the HLASM macro language; they
learned REXX very rapidly.  Like many PL/I programmers they still make more
use of optional semicolons than they need to do, but they were able to use
REXX 'arrays' as soon as I made it clear that they were very like HLASM
created set-symbol arrays.

In a word, tell us what you [already] know.

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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Re: Need tutorial

[John Gilmore]

Lizette's point is the crucial one.  I,. for one, would make quite
different recommendations to a novice and to an experienced programmer
who just happened not to know REXX and/or COBOL.

What you know in detail may even be important.  I recently taught REXX
to my teenager group, who already knew PL/I and the HLASM macro
language; they learned REXX very rapidly.  Like many PL/I programmers
they still make more use of optional semicolons than they need to do,
but they were able to use REXX 'arrays' as soon as I made it clear
that they were very like HLASM created set-symbol arrays.

In a word, tell us what you know.

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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Re: Need tutorial

[John Gilmore]

Lizette's point is the crucial one.  I,. for one, would make quite
different recommendations to a novice and to an experienced programmer
who just happened not to know REXX and/or COBOL.

What you know in detail may even be important.  I recently taught REXX
to my teenager group, who already knew PL/I and the HLASM macro
language; they learned REXX very rapidly.  Like many PL/I programmers
they still make more use of optional semicolons than they need to do,
but they were able to use REXX 'arrays' as soon as I made it clear
that they were very like HLASM created set-symbol arrays.

In a word, tell us what you [already] know.

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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Re: Need tutorial

[Lizette Koehler]

You will get many answers.

It would help to know your platform and what level of experience you have with 
REXX and COBOL.

Do you have access to a system to work on these languages?

If your company has funds, I would go to Steve's website and purchase his 
trainings packets before Dec 31.

Tons of detail are available at:

   http://www.trainersfriend.com/SpecialSale/



Lizette


> -Original Message-
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> Behalf Of Rajesh Kumar
> Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2013 7:29 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Need tutorial
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I need a good tutorial for rexx and cobol. PleasePlease provide me.
> 
> thanks
> 

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Re: Need tutorial

[Elardus Engelbrecht]

Rajesh Kumar  wrote:

>I need a good tutorial for rexx and cobol. PleasePlease provide me.

On what platform and environment? What is your goal to learn these two 
languages?

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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Re: Need tutorial

[baby eklavya]

Hello ,

Check out the books given below .

Rexx Programmer's Reference by Howard
Fosdick
.

Practical Usage of TSO REXX by Anthony S.
Rudd
.

Rexx With Os/2, Tso & Cms Features: Quick Reference Guide by Gabriel F.
Gargiulo
.

The REXX Language: A Practical Approach to Programing by Michail
Cowlishaw
.

REXX in the TSO environment by Gabriel F
Gargiulo
.

Programming in REXX by Charles
Daney
.

The Rexx Handbook (J Ranade Ibm Series) by Gabriel Goldberg and Philip H.
Smith
.

REXX Tools and Techniques by Barry K.
Nirmal
.

Regards,
Baby




On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Charles Mills  wrote:

> Actually CMS on VM better for rexx than z/OS.
>
> Charles
> Composed on a mobile: please excuse my brevity
>
> Charles Mills  wrote:
>
> >Rexx is easy to learn. You need Cowlishaw's book and a system to play on:
> z/OS or rexx for Windows or Linux. COBOL will be a little tougher.
> >
> >Charles
> >Composed on a mobile: please excuse my brevity
> >
> >Rajesh Kumar  wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I need a good tutorial for rexx and cobol. PleasePlease provide me.
> >>
> >>thanks
> >>
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Re: Need tutorial

[Charles Mills]

Actually CMS on VM better for rexx than z/OS. 

Charles
Composed on a mobile: please excuse my brevity 

Charles Mills  wrote:

>Rexx is easy to learn. You need Cowlishaw's book and a system to play on: z/OS 
>or rexx for Windows or Linux. COBOL will be a little tougher. 
>
>Charles
>Composed on a mobile: please excuse my brevity 
>
>Rajesh Kumar  wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I need a good tutorial for rexx and cobol. PleasePlease provide me.
>>
>>thanks
>>
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Re: Need tutorial

[Charles Mills]

Rexx is easy to learn. You need Cowlishaw's book and a system to play on: z/OS 
or rexx for Windows or Linux. COBOL will be a little tougher. 

Charles
Composed on a mobile: please excuse my brevity 

Rajesh Kumar  wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I need a good tutorial for rexx and cobol. PleasePlease provide me.
>
>thanks
>
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