I Want to work on REXX at home in my home xp pc.

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I Want to work on REXX at home in my home xp pc.

Postby sandynaidu » Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:46 pm

I Want to work on REXX at home in my home xp pc. so can any one suggest me any tool available on rexx, that can help me work on the same. if any other tools are available on mainframe that can be used/worked at home with xp pc , please mention the same. :)

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Re: I Want to work on REXX at home in my home xp pc.

Postby dick scherrer » Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:32 pm

Hello,

You might look here:
http://www.oorexx.org/

Keep in mind that when you work on a pc, 2 major differences from the mainframe are the way files are handled and that much/most mainframe rexx utilizes tso/ispf services/macros.
Hope this helps,
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Re: I Want to work on REXX at home in my home xp pc.

Postby hakghen » Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:43 pm

I'd like to also ask if there's some place with REXX books (aside IBM's) but mainly some exercises to train the language...

Thanks in advance,
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Hakghen

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Re: I Want to work on REXX at home in my home xp pc.

Postby MrSpock » Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:37 pm

If you don't mind me asking, why REXX? Most places today would prefer you to know something like PERL.