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Ali_gezer

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Hello, Im thinking in studying some of this language but I cannot see practical examples of its use.
Can you tell me about some programs that you use in order to see what can it do?
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 20, 2021 1:57 am
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Code:
/* REXX */
Say "Hello, World!"
Return 0
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A sample more complex than Hello, World!

ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=65373

There are approx. 100500 other samples at this forum, plus approx. 100500100 more samples at other locations. To say nothing about the books, and manuals.
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thinking in studying some of this language


I am curious of what practical tasks you do in other languages. Can you give examples? That is, I am not interested in code snippets, but rather what requirements you meet.
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Samples of useful things done w/ REXX can be found for ex at Mark Zelden Website. Link http://mzelden.com/mvsutil.html
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Pardon me, I did not make clear that I was asking for useful programs for a mainframe programer.
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Joerg.Findeisen wrote:
Samples of useful things done w/ REXX can be found for ex at Mark Zelden Website. Link http://mzelden.com/mvsutil.html


this is fantastic, thanks.
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Ali_gezer wrote:
Pardon me, I did not make clear that I was asking for useful programs for a mainframe programer.

What is the difference between “a useful program”, and “a useless one”? icon_biggrin.gif
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sergeyken wrote:
What is the difference between “a useful program”, and “a useless one”? icon_biggrin.gif

It's in the name "use less". icon_wink.gif
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The original poster said he was referring to useful programs for a mainframe programmer... this is not a one-size-fits-all type of situation. For example, some people are managing the operating system while others are doing database stuff.

The best approach is that when you encounter a problem, to try to solve it with rexx. And by using it, you can learn it.
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This topic reminds me of myself 22 years ago. I had just obtained a PC C compiler and was wondering what I could do with it. Just devising ideas and writing programs to implement the ideas eventually gave me lots of experience.
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My approach is is leverage my laziness. Many of my Rexx programs originated from my desire to automate some of the boring and labour intensive tasks that are part of a programmer’s life. For example, extracting job output from SDSF and saving in in a permanent PDSE used as an archive. You can do it manually via the XDC command, but that gets tedious after the first 50 times. So I automated it using Rexx, for my own benefit at first, and now my whole team uses it.
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don.leahy wrote:
For example, extracting job output from SDSF and saving in in a permanent PDSE used as an archive. You can do it manually via the XDC command, but that gets tedious after the first 50 times. So I automated it using Rexx, for my own benefit at first, and now my whole team uses it.

Mind to share?
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re: "My approach is to leverage my laziness"

Same here! (I am retired now... ups my laziness to a whole new level)
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Joerg.Findeisen wrote:
don.leahy wrote:
For example, extracting job output from SDSF and saving in in a permanent PDSE used as an archive. You can do it manually via the XDC command, but that gets tedious after the first 50 times. So I automated it using Rexx, for my own benefit at first, and now my whole team uses it.

Mind to share?
If it was up to me, yes. But I am bound by strict IP rules imposed by my employer. The contract says that they own everything I create.
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@don.leahy
How do you store, the entire job under its jobname? What happens next time the same jobname is encountered?
Is it a batch program or run from ISPF?
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don.leahy wrote:
Joerg.Findeisen wrote:
don.leahy wrote:
For example, extracting job output from SDSF and saving in in a permanent PDSE used as an archive. You can do it manually via the XDC command, but that gets tedious after the first 50 times. So I automated it using Rexx, for my own benefit at first, and now my whole team uses it.

Mind to share?
If it was up to me, yes. But I am bound by strict IP rules imposed by my employer. The contract says that they own everything I create.

Even if you do it at home, in your spare time, on your Hercules "mainframe"?
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JPVRoff wrote:
Even if you do it at home, in your spare time, on your Hercules "mainframe"?

You will not have to have some authorities to check your Software Licenses.
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Quote:
I am bound by ...


Don is bound by it, mainly through his strong ethics. Kudos to Don.
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How do you store, the entire job under its jobname?


We did not have production jobs where I worked, so I never had to use GDGs. Perhaps that is the first choice.

An alternative would be to use data sets with a hierarchical naming convention:
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hlq.jobname.D22011.T151200.jobnum
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Willy Jensen wrote:
@don.leahy
How do you store, the entire job under its jobname? What happens next time the same jobname is encountered?
Is it a batch program or run from ISPF?
I use the job number as the member name. It’s not guaranteed to be unique because it eventually rolls over, but your chances are good. The tool maintains a log data set that stores the job name along with the job number. This serves as an index on the archive PDSE, and makes navigation easy.

The tool runs in both batch and online modes, depending on the option selected on the ISPF panel that kicks off the process.
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How do you store, the entire job under its jobname?


We did not have production jobs where I worked, so I never had to use GDGs. Perhaps that is the first choice.

An alternative would be to use data sets with a hierarchical naming convention:
Code:
hlq.jobname.D22011.T151200.jobnum
I considered that, but we wanted to store all the output in a single PDSE. A typical project uses multiple PDSEs, usually one per test cycle, where a cycle might consist of 500 jobs. I used the job number as the member name, as it is nearly unique for most practical purposes. It’s also not very user friendly so the tool maintains a log data set that is updated as jobs are added to the archive PDSE. The log contains job name, job number, MAXRC, start/end date/time, etc.
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don.leahy wrote:
My approach is is leverage my laziness. Many of my Rexx programs originated from my desire to automate some of the boring and labour intensive tasks that are part of a programmer’s life. For example, extracting job output from SDSF and saving in in a permanent PDSE used as an archive. You can do it manually via the XDC command, but that gets tedious after the first 50 times. So I automated it using Rexx, for my own benefit at first, and now my whole team uses it.


I was refering to this kind of use of the language.
Can you give some more examples? I find useful this programs of yours.
Thank you in advice.
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