Introduction to REXX Workshop

Date: March 31, 1999
Time: Noon - 4pm
Duration: 4 hours
Location: MSB042
Instructor: Rick Ellis

Источник: https://vm.uconn.edu/~pets/rexxwshp.html

Part 1 - Basic Language Elements

·  Introduction

·  Scripting Example

·  Procedureal Example

·  Quick History

·  Language Elements

·  Comments

·  Strings

·  Variables

·  Operators

·  Expressions

·  REXX Instructions

·  Assignment Statements

·  Labels

·  Commands

·  The Variable RC

·  Miscellaneous Syntax Notes

·  Online VM/CMS Help

·  CMS Help

·  BookManager Books

Part 2 - REXX Instructions and Functions

·  REXX Instructions

·  Flow Control

·  Decisions

·  Loops

·  Subroutines

·  Using the Program Stack

·  Debugging

·  Miscellaneous

·  REXX Functions

·  Informational Functions

·  Numeric Functions

·  String Functions

Part 3 - Parsing, Stem Variables, and Input/Output

·  Parsing

·  Parsing Strings

·  Passing Arguments to Execs

·  Passing Arguments to Subroutines

·  Stem Variables

·  Initializing Stem Variables

·  The Zeroth Element

·  Looping with Stem Variables

·  Multi-dimensional Stem Variables

·  Input and Output

·  CMS EXECIO Command

·  I/O with CMS Pipelines

·  Character I/O

·  Line I/O

Suggestions about Where to Go From Here

·  Learn REXX more completely

·  Explore CMS Pipelines

·  Explore Xedit Macros

·  Explore CMS Windows

·  Explore REXX on Other Computing Platforms (e.g., OS/390, Win95)

·  Explore Accessing DB2 and Other File Structures from REXX

·  Explore NetREXX

·  Explore Object REXX