REXX in a Multi-Platform Environment

    

Summary:
This course will teach the student how to create, execute, debug and modify programs in the REXX programming language. The course will include execution under VM/CMS, PC/DOS, NetView and OS/2 as well as execution with automation products. Comparisons to similar CLIST capabilities will be provided where applicable. Quizzes and labs will be used to reinforce presented topics. Labs will necessarily be geared to the operating system of the host site.

Duration:
3 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
This course is intended for systems programmers, operations personnel and application programmers.

Topics:

• Introduction
• Dataset handling
• Instruction syntax
• Parsing
• Statements
• Executing commands
• Functions and subroutines
• TSO/E vs. non-TSO/E address space execution
• The stacks
• Debugging
• Suggested conventions
• Advanced topics

Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisites for this course.

Last Update: February 7, 2012