On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 11:23:41 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Yes, I know that TSO support requires heavy lifting, and not just for fopen(). > What else?
Would a build of OoRexx without fopen() be useful? (bI've long wished that catalogued data sets could routinely be mounted via NFS so open() would suffice.) >The problem is that those "more modern" languages don't support the close >integration of scripts to applications that REXX supports. > Would a port of OoRexx readily support ADDRESS SYSCALL, ADDRESS SDSF, ADDRESS ISREDIT, , perhaps using replaceable packages,unmodified? >________________________________________ >From: David Crayford [[email protected]] >Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2021 2:45 AM > >Never going to happen. I ported ooRexx to z/OS UNIX over a decade ago >and getting it to work in TSO is a heavy lift. It doesn't use fopen() so >needs a lot of patching to work with MVS data sets. It's not worth the >effort. There are better, more modern languages available on z/OS now so >it's only the diehard REXXers that are interested. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
