Re: z/OS 3.1 Enhancements & Support News

Steve, The current big advantage REXX has is the extensive list of host environments available using ADDRESS. I suspect over time , that python interfaces to many will appear as developers can safely assume its presence on the system. Rob Scott Rocket Software Sent from Outlook for Android

Compression in z15-t02

Hi, Do I need any software besides base z/OS v2.5 to support compression using to compression accelerator? Gadi -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the m

Rexx is quite cool, flexible, powerful, feature-rich, thank you! (Re: z/OS 3.1 Enhancements & Support News

On 28.06.2024 23:01, David Crayford wrote: I'd prefer to avoid another instance of Crayford criticizing REXX, but here's my take. :) One major hurdle in adopting Python is its dependency on a UNIX environment. When I introduced Python to REXX programmers, I received feedback from seasoned pr

Re: Rexx is quite cool, flexible, powerful, feature-rich, thank you! (Re: z/OS 3.1 Enhancements & Support News

The landscape would be quite different were IBM to provide legacy streams, port ooRexx to TSO and include BSF4ooRexx as part of z/OS. On my PCs I've pretty much abandoned SAA Rexx. "Tell me the correct performance comparison between two language orocessors vand I'll devise a benchmark to prove

Re: z/OS 3.1 Enhancements & Support News

The REXX included in TSO/E is a backwater; it is missing features long available in ooRex and Regina, The key questions on the SDK are 1. Is it a current level of Python? 2. What packages are included/ -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָ

Re: Compression in z15-t02

On 6/30/2024 5:07 AM, גדי בן אבי wrote: Hi, Do I need any software besides base z/OS v2.5 to support compression using to compression accelerator? Gadi | PRODUCT OWNER('IBM CORP') |     NAME('Z/OS') |    FEATURENAME('ZEDC') |     ID(5650-ZOS) |     VERSION(*) |     RELEASE

Re: z/OS 3.1 Enhancements & Support News

On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:30:53 +, Rob Scott wrote: > >The current big advantage REXX has is the extensive list of host environments >available using ADDRESS. > >I suspect over time , that python interfaces to many will appear as developers >can safely assume its presence on the system. > >Rob

Re: Compression in z15-t02

Note that it's a priced feature. Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=markjac...@protonmail.com On Sunday, June 30th, 2024 at 10:17 AM, Ed Jaffe <05acc3c79bf7-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wro

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Re: z/OS 3.1 Enhancements & Support News

Almost all of my Rexx work involves one or more of those host environments, including obscure ones like REXXIMS. I don’t see me moving to Python anytime soon. But I have very little career runway left, so my preference doesn’t matter. :-). On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 04:31 Rob Scott < 0618c90

Re: CPU and I/O statistics for BPXBATCH executions?

On 28/06/2024 9:30 pm, Scott Chapman wrote: From 2011: SMF 30 and End-of-job Accounting The choice of BPXBATCH vs. BPXBATSL vs. JZOS directly impacts the SMF 30 records that are created for a Java batch job. Note that there are USS environment variables that may impact the details presented h

Re: z/OS 3.1 Enhancements & Support News

To address a few questions scattered in this thread... According to the current TIOBE Index (June, 2024), an attempt to rank the popularity of programming languages, Python is #1. But wherever you rank it, Python is at least reasonably popular. Inclusion of popular programming languages in the