Re: CL/REXX Was: valid 5250 character set

On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 2:57 PM Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Am 01.06.2022 um 18:15 schrieb Jack Woehr via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

The ability to return from a Python script directly into the calling CL's variables would be nice.

Wouldn't this mean to get a native port of Python to the CL environment instead of PASE? At least if the whole thing shouldn't end like a CPU-eating tangle of cross-environment return data shoveling?

There was already a port of Python to that environment. But it was
severely hampered by the inability to use much of the Python
ecosystem, which is arguably the real strength of Python.

For administrative scripts, the plain Python language is already more
than capable enough, but there is still the issue that it doesn't have
a mechanism for output parameters, so in that regard, it's no benefit
for Python to live in the QSYS.LIB environment.

John Y.