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Book cover image of Mastering OS/2 REXX by Gabriel F. Gargiulo

Authors: Gabriel F. Gargiulo
ISBN-13: 9780471519010, ISBN-10: 0471519014
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: February 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Gabriel F. Gargiulo

Gabriel F. Gargiulo has over 22 years of experience in IBM application development, design, and training. As an independent consultant, he regularly conducts seminars and workshops on TSO and VM, REXX, TSO/ISPF, JCL, SQL, and QMF.

Book Synopsis

About This Book

Instant productivity increases are guaranteed with this book. It shows how to use REXX with TSO, the ISPF Dialogue Manager, the ISPF Editor, Netview, DB2, SQL, and the QMF forms panels. Long on practice (short on theory), this tutorial uses interactive examples to show how to use REXX and build a library of useful EXECS and MACROS. It covers REXX in TSO, OS/2, VM, and CMS environments.

The revised edition provides more detailed information on how to get the most out of the ISPF Dialogue Manager, and includes a comprehensive quick reference guide as an appendix.

Another Book in the Wiley-QED IBM Mainframe Series

REXX: Tools and Techniques by Barry K. Nirmal. "In this book, Barry Nirmal presents a whole host of utilities that form a ready-made compendium of software to help and assist the reader and his or her colleagues in their work and to offer them an in-depth knowledge of the routines' internal workings, making it relatively simple to adapt and tailor them to the needs of individual installations.

"This book provides the programmer with ready-made solutions to real-life problems and the framework upon which to build more complex and installation-dependent routines. Everyone will find something here, whether they are after an 'off-the-shelf' solution or the seed of an idea that they can develop into something much more sophisticated."— Steve Piggott, Editor, MVS Update

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Ch. 1What You Can Do With REXX1
Ch. 2Where Does REXX Fit in on OS/2?7
Ch. 3How to Create and Execute a REXX Program15
Ch. 4REXX Syntax: The Rules of the Language45
Ch. 5The Basics: Some Simple REXX Verbs67
Ch. 6IF-the Conditional73
Ch. 7String Manipulation: The Parse Instruction87
Ch. 8Debugging109
Ch. 9Trapping Errors119
Ch. 10Math137
Ch. 11SELECT: The Case Structure145
Ch. 12Executing OS/2 Commands151
Ch. 13Built-in Functions163
Ch. 14User-written Functions/Subroutines185
Ch. 15Looping199
Ch. 16Queuing Data with REXX215
Ch. 17Compound Variables231
Ch. 18Reading and Writing Files239
Ch. 19The INTERPRET Instruction251
Ch. 20Converting from Batch Files255
Appendix A: Problems and Solutions267
Appendix B: OS/2 Commands305
Appendix C: REXX Instructions315
Appendix D: REXX Functions339
Appendix E: REXX Reserved Variables401
Index403

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