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 (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

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