Re: IBM Help


Floyd Johnson wrote:
> I have student who has received a very attractive internship offer
(i.e.
> room and board, transportation, and a small salary) because of the
> training I provided him in COBOL a year ago. We worked with Fujitsu
> COBOL in the PC environment - both the student version and the
> professional version.
>
> However, the internship includes work with TSO, IPSF (?), ReXX, etc.
> There is no opportunity on campus to become familiar with these
tools.
> The internship site knows this is not part of his background, but he
> wants to be as prepared as possible as he starts his summer
activities.
> Can you suggest any web sites that could help him understand how
these
> differ from PC products and prepare to use these new environments and

> utilities.
>
> Thank you for any ideas or leads.
>
> Floyd Johnson

Rexx is the easy one. Other than the newsgroup comp.lang.rexx, see

Rexx Language Association http://www.rexxla.org/
Open Object Rexx http://www.oorexx.org/

Rexx is available on a wide variety of platforms. The core language
should be very portable. There are a number of free interpreters which
run on Windows such as Regina, Reginald and now Open Object Rexx.

IMO, a helpful topic to look at in regards to moving from PC to
Mainframe is
Decimal Arithmetic http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/

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