Re: CL/REXX Was: valid 5250 character set

In the end the solution is to create a wrapper object on both sides of the
open source/qsys environments that can move parameters back and forth.
The design and implementation of those wrapper objects are left to the
ingenuity of the developer.

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Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 11:54 AM Jack Woehr via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rexx + CMS/TSO Pipelines is the summit of z programming on the legacy side
and I spent many happy hours coding Rexx.

That said, the language for admin scripting on IBM i going forward is
*Python*.

On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 10:22 AM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Here's the rub though Jim. If you want to use SQL etc in CL IBM has
pretty much said that's not going to happen, ever.

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Sent: Friday, June 3, 2022 12:08 PM

A) REXX while a great language is all but dead except maybe on the
mainframe.

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