REXX with ISPF panels is a cake walk to do -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 2:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Does anybody remember CLIST?
I think when converting from CLIST to REXX, it helps to know what the code is suppose to do, rather than try to change a line by line process WRITE in Clist is SAY in REXX But logic of the CLIST will help to rewrite it into REXX that is efficient. For me, it has always been easier to rewrite the process in REXX and document what the sections of code will do. I have done both ways REXX to CLIST and CLIST to REXX. There are books called MVS TSO: Commands, CLIST & REXX (Part 2) (Pt. 2) by Doug Lowe | Jun 1, 1991 TSO CLIST to TSO REXX Conversion Handbook by Gabriel F. Gargiulo | May 1, 2015 Both are available on Amazon. Lizette -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Steve Beaver Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 12:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Does anybody remember CLIST? I forgot CLIST once I learned REXX And Charles you can debug REXX easily -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 1:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Does anybody remember CLIST? Does CLIST have the kind of debugging facility that Rexx has? Can you assign some initial values and then step through the code seeing what is happening? I am going to guess not, but thought it worth asking. I know nada CLIST. When I left the OS/360 family of operating systems somewhere around 1975 TSO was mostly a slow curiosity and when I came back around 1990 Rexx was powerful, widely available and I knew it from CMS. Whenever I opened a member and it was in CLIST I quickly closed it again. Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
