Gabriel F. Gargiulo

The Rexx Language on Tso Gabriel F. Gargiulo

This book will teach you how to write programs in the REXX language on IBM mainframe computers. It is useful for technical, applications, and maintenance programmers working on new or legacy code written in the REXX language. It describes the REXX programming language for TSO/E, MVS, OS/390 and Z/OS. (IBM mainframe operating system environments). The book quickly gets you writing programs in REXX. It covers all REXX language elements, all TSO/E built-in functions, and the more important built-in REXX functions. You will find URLs in the book linking to a set of practice problems on a public webpage, as well as additional information on setting up your TSO/E session to execute REXX programs. This book was written and published in 2012 by the author of "REXX in the TSO Environment." The REXX Language on TSO improves on "REXX in the TSO Environment" in every way: it clarifies important points; it is better organized, and gives better examples.

Here are the chapter headings for The REXX Language on TSO:

Chapter 1: Overview of REXX                   
Chapter 2: Setting Up to Execute REXX in TSO/ISPF       
Chapter 3: The Basic Features                   
Chapter 4: IF                               
Chapter 5: Looping                           
Chapter 6: SELECT: the CASE Structure               
Chapter 7: PARSE                           
Chapter 8: Debugging                           
Chapter 9: Trapping Unexpected Conditions               
Chapter 10: SIGNAL: the Extinct "GO TO"               
Chapter 11: Math                           
Chapter 12: Passing Commands to Command Processors       
Chapter 13: Built-in Functions                   
Chapter 14: Writing Your Own Functions               
Chapter 15: Writing Your Own Subroutines               
Chapter 16: The Internal Data Queue, or Stack           
Chapter 17: Compound Variables                   
Chapter 18: Reading and Writing Files: EXECIO           
Chapter 19: The INTERPRET Instruction               
Chapter 20: Running REXX in Batch                   
Index