Peter, Totally agree with you, worked VM for a long time. Liked all of its features..still do..
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > On Jan 1, 2014, at 2:23 PM, "Farley, Peter x23353" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > PMFJI here, but IMHO the pipeline paradigm, though obviously powerful and > useful, is not the major advantage of VM and CMS over z/OS and TSO for > developers, Rexx or otherwise. > > 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, to very simply arrange to pass > data between them via VMCF and/or IUCV. Then add the power of VM Rexx and > pipeline support and XEDIT and the other CMS tools as the only code needed to > actually run in and interact with those DVM's and many extremely useful and > powerful applications can be coded with nary a compiler or assembler in > sight, never mind in use. No authorized coding or cross-memory complexity > required. Add DB2 and networking support for Rexx and many full-function > business applications are added to the possibilities. > > I bemoan the failure decades ago of the CMS on MVS project. That would, > indeed, have changed the history and practice of our computing lives. > > And a Happy New Year to all. > > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of David Crayford > Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2013 11:21 PM > To: [email protected] > 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 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? > > Most VMers claim that Rexx is superior on VM because of CMS pipes. > That's a pretty strong argument. > > -- > > This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the > addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If > the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized > representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail > and delete the message and any attachments from your system. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
