I'm following your example of civility. How does calling ISPEXEC cause you to lose access to variables and how would that differ between TSO/E REX and ooRexx? The complaint about REXX is that when a REXX script calls an external REXX script, the callee has no access to the caller's variable, but that's less of a problem with ooRexx.
ooRexx is not a TSO scripting language only because it has not been fully ported to TSO. If you believe that there are other obstacles, feel free to identify them. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Jon Perryman <jperr...@pacbell.net> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2025 3:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Subject: Re: REXX say & OOREXX was: In IBM-land, AFP means... External Message: Use Caution On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 18:55:24 +0000, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: >You haven't got a clue as to what I understand; you've made that abundantly >clear. I'm only asking you to be on topic and not dismiss my knowledge and experience as "nonsense". This is a discussion about porting OOREXX without losing functionality and why IBM will not be porting it because everything the original developers need is already available in TSO. One of the complaints about REXX is that calling a REXX exec creates a unique instance of the exec. From OOREXX, you can make calls to ISPEXEC the underlying logic using ISPEXEC calls but will lose access to the OOREXX objects and variables. What value does OOREXX provide when it is more suitable as a batch job instead of TSO scripting language? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
