Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]

2014-01-02 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes: Are you suggesting that I, as a Class G user, can build and deploy a DVM, no sysprog intervention? re: http://www.garilc.com/~lynn/2014.html#1 Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx] that is exactly how the rexx author started

Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]

2014-01-02 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
in spring 1982. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#91 Learning Rexx there was also a presentation on CMS running on MVS. A couple yrs earlier, Endicott had gotten the corporation to announce that vm370/cms was the strategic online, interactive solution. The TSO product administrator had

Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]

2014-01-02 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#1 Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx] http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#2 Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx] another thing in the wake of FS failure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys

Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]

2014-01-02 Thread Mike Myers
Year to all. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2013 11:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Learning Rexx On 29/12/2013 1:07 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On 2013

Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]

2014-01-02 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
/2014.html#1 Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx] http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#2 Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx] http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#4 Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx] the 23jun1969 unbundle

Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]

2014-01-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 11:49:40 -0500, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: Gerard Schildberger writes: [must have come via BITNET] OS/VS2 would crash when getting close to 512 address spaces. Does anybody know when that threshold was lifted? Or is there a new threshold? There's always a threshold;

Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]

2014-01-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 09:30:19 -0500, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: (Paul Gilmartin) writes: Are you suggesting that I, as a Class G user, can build and deploy a DVM, no sysprog intervention? that is exactly how the rexx author started out with his multi-user client/server spacewar game. however you

Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]

2014-01-02 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx] On Wed, 1 Jan 2014 14:23:58 -0500, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: Rather, I would argue that it is the even more the powerful concept of DVM's, Disconnected Virtual Machines, and the resulting ability for even ordinary

Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]

2014-01-02 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
[was: RE: Learning Rexx] Peter: Your mention of CMS on MVS brings back memories. Karl Finkemeyer and I were picked as the technical team leaders for the two teams that were to actually develop it. We had begun staffing our teams when the project was killed (that was about 1982, as I recall). We

Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]

2014-01-02 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com wrote: Thanks for the history Mike. I would indeed have truly bemoaned the loss of VM had that happened. Being lodged in strictly MVS and z/OS shops for many years without access to VM and CMS at all I just

Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]

2014-01-02 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes: I would think you'd first need sysadmin to DEFINE the service machine. Isn't that a directory update, beyond the entitlement of a Class G user? re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#1 Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx

Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]

2014-01-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 12:32:58 -0600, John McKown wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: Thanks for the history Mike. I would indeed have truly bemoaned the loss of VM had that happened. Being lodged in strictly MVS and z/OS shops for many years without access to

Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]

2014-01-02 Thread Mike Myers
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Myers Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 10:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx] Peter: Your mention of CMS on MVS brings back memories. Karl Finkemeyer and I were picked as the technical team

Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]

2014-01-01 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
] On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2013 11:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Learning Rexx On 29/12/2013 1:07 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On 2013-12-28, at 09:47, Charles Mills wrote: Actually CMS on VM better for rexx than z/OS. Why? (Risking an advocacy

Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]

2014-01-01 Thread Scott Ford
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2013 11:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Learning Rexx On 29/12/2013 1:07 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On 2013-12-28, at 09:47, Charles Mills wrote: Actually CMS on VM better for rexx than z/OS. Why? (Risking

Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]

2014-01-01 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 1 Jan 2014 14:23:58 -0500, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: Rather, I would argue that it is the even more the powerful concept of DVM's, Disconnected Virtual Machines, and the resulting ability for even ordinary application developers, not just sysprogs, ... Are you suggesting that I, as

Re: Learning Rexx

2013-12-31 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 13:36:46 +0800, David Crayford wrote: Designing routines to co-operate in a pipeline is a very different programming paradigm to what the vast majority of REXX programmers on z/OS are familar with. s/REXX // Shane ...

Re: Learning Rexx

2013-12-31 Thread Scott Ford
Shane, Not a difficult to we who worked VM or Linux...that's kind of a vague generation Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Dec 31, 2013, at 5:23 AM, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 13:36:46 +0800, David

Re: Learning Rexx

2013-12-31 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
scott_j_f...@yahoo.com (Scott Ford) writes: Not a difficult to we who worked VM or Linux...that's kind of a vague generation trivia ... I did internal adtech conf. spring '82 (week before share) ... it was first for a number of yrs since the corporate retrenching after the failure of future

Re: Learning Rexx (was: Need tutorial)

2013-12-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5c8fv3f78unypshw9tyopynk.1388251271...@email.android.com, on 12/28/2013 at 12:21 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: The user-friendly interactive nature of CMS. Rhat would seem to describe TSO as well. The only place where CMS has a clear edge, IMHO, is XEDIT. -- Shmuel

Re: Learning Rexx (was: Need tutorial)

2013-12-30 Thread Charles Mills
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2013 2:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Learning Rexx (was: Need tutorial) On 2013-12-28, at 10:21, Charles Mills wrote: The user-friendly interactive nature

Re: Learning Rexx (was: Need tutorial)

2013-12-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 07dd01cf055e$eb92e0d0$c2b8a270$@mcn.org, on 12/30/2013 at 07:59 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: It's really a separate topic, but I think there is little doubt that it makes sense to edit code of any sort in some fast character-at-a-time interactive environment even if the target

Re: Learning Rexx

2013-12-30 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 12:20:36 +0800, David Crayford wrote: Most VMers claim that Rexx is superior on VM because of CMS pipes. That's a pretty strong argument. That's analogous to claiming that Rexx is superior on z/OS because of address SYSCALL (others might say ISPEXEC/ISREDIT). -- gil

Re: Learning Rexx

2013-12-30 Thread John Gilmore
Reifying personal preferences into claims of superiority is a lot like arguing from a mystical experience. They may well be personally compelling; but they don't persuade others. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA -- For

Re: Learning Rexx

2013-12-30 Thread David Crayford
On 30/12/2013 11:11 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Most VMers claim that Rexx is superior on VM because of CMS pipes. That's a pretty strong argument. That's analogous to claiming that Rexx is superior on z/OS because of address SYSCALL (others might say ISPEXEC/ISREDIT). Perhaps. But pipes are

Re: Learning Rexx (was: Need tutorial)

2013-12-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2013-12-28, at 10:21, Charles Mills wrote: The user-friendly interactive nature of CMS. How would you rank CMS vis-a-vis Unix System Services by this criterion? Before USS was available I tended to edit JCL on CMS with XEDIT; nowadays on Solaris, often accessing legacy data sets with

Re: Learning Rexx

2013-12-29 Thread Ricky
I have my own edit system: Use Vim to do editing and sytax highligting, auto complete, also Vim calls ftp command and one shell to submit JCL that do send to z/OS and call compiler. Also intergrate with Cygwin can use a lot of GNU utility, such as grep/awk/sed. I think the most powerful thing

Re: Learning Rexx

2013-12-29 Thread David Crayford
On 29/12/2013 1:07 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On 2013-12-28, at 09:47, Charles Mills wrote: Actually CMS on VM better for rexx than z/OS. Why? (Risking an advocacy thread.) For me, one reason is the CMS HELP facility. In fact, sometimes coding Rexx for z/OS I'll log on to CMS merely to

Learning Rexx (was: Need tutorial)

2013-12-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2013-12-28, at 09:47, Charles Mills wrote: Actually CMS on VM better for rexx than z/OS. Why? (Risking an advocacy thread.) For me, one reason is the CMS HELP facility. In fact, sometimes coding Rexx for z/OS I'll log on to CMS merely to use HELP REXX instruction. Other reasons? --

Re: Learning Rexx (was: Need tutorial)

2013-12-28 Thread Charles Mills
The user-friendly interactive nature of CMS. Charles Composed on a mobile: please excuse my brevity Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On 2013-12-28, at 09:47, Charles Mills wrote: Actually CMS on VM better for rexx than z/OS. Why? (Risking an advocacy thread.) For me, one