In <listserv%[email protected]>, on 11/19/2010
at 09:29 AM, Robert Birdsall <[email protected]> said:
>Personally, I think address MVS ought to cover basic OS functions
>like catalog,
Not if that name is already taken.
>while 'hosts' should be able to be provided for other functions,
>e.g. address
They've been able to do that for decades; the problem is convincing
them to actually do so.
>z/OS Rexx allows for the addition of function packages. Does it
>allow for the addition of (non-IBM) hosts?
It provides the interface; the host has to initialize it and provide
supporting code.
>As a nonstandard extension to
>Rexx, it would also be nice to terminate a host interface,
That wouldn't make a lot of sense, because it's the host that call
REXX in the first place. What would it mean to cancel, e.g., address
ISREDIT in the middle of an edit macro?
>Note that the z/OS Rexx implementation is somewhat non-standard as
>is.
Is the CMS version any closer to the ANSI standard than the TSO/E
version?
>Hmm.. should this discussion move to a Rexx list?
I'd say that IBM-MAIN is more appropriate than TSO-REXX when you're
talking about more than just TSO.
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