Re: [Oorexx-users] Is it possible to compile an ooRexx script?

[Roger B. <sf...@bi...>]

Hello David,
thank you for your quick and detailed answer.

1. Would you please provide more detailed information about
    'It can reduce the code to something the user can not edit'?

2. In my opinion it would make no sense to build an ooRexx implementation for z/OS, because IBM integrats Rexx  on z/OS
as a script language in a lot of subsystems (TSO, ISPF, QMF, DB2, USS (Unix System Services), NetView etc.) and
I think it wouldn't be possible to replace it with ooRexx.
The main difference between ooRexx and z/OS Rexx from the point of view as a system programmer is the option to build
programs using the graphical user interface. On z/OS the only GUI is ISPF - something looks like DOS screens ;-)

The possibility of the object oriented programming should be after my experience for system programmers hardly of interest -
most of the system programmer known to me was ever not interested in programming and the developers on z/OS use COBOL
and, with a PC based workbench, C or Java, rarly C++.

Therefore: why do you want a z/OS version of ooRexx?

Btw: What could be very interesting in my opinion, would be the ability to use the HLLAPI. 
I already developed some scripts with the very bad VBA interface of Rumba, a 3270 emulator, to automate repetitive inputs.
My experiments with ooRexx failed because I didn't understand how to call the the 3270 api - 
with Excel I have come a little further by I've been experimenting with the undocumented pointer functions.

Regards
Roger