{"product_id":"tso-clist-to-tso-rexx-conversion-handbook-paperback","title":"TSO CLIST to TSO REXX Conversion Handbook - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGabriel F. Gargiulo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is for the programmer who needs to convert a program written in TSO-CLIST to TSO-REXX in the z\/OS TSO\/ISPF environment. You need some familiarity with both languages in order to do a conversion.\u003cbr\u003eThis book will show the correspondences, or lack of them, between CLIST language features and REXX language features. CLIST language features are shown on the left-hand page, with the corresponding REXX language feature on the facing, right-hand page.\u003cbr\u003eTSO-CLIST dates back to the beginning of TSO in 1971. It truly is a legacy language. IBM continues to support it because so many of its customers have active, functioning CLIST programs in use.\u003cbr\u003eCLIST language is found only in one environment, the z\/OS TSO\/ISPF environment. Experience programming with CLIST is not readily transferable to any other environment. The REXX language is found mostly in the z\/OS TSO\/ISPF environment, and in QMF, CICS, DOS\/VSE, and Netview. Knowing REXX makes you more valuable to your employer.\u003cbr\u003eThe number of programmers who can understand CLIST language is diminishing. It is a good business decision to convert CLIST programs, where possible, to REXX programs.\u003cbr\u003eI'm sure most programmers will remember the nightmare of having to fix a program that is so old that no one left alive knows what the program is expected to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eI worked as a programmer for a major insurance company. In 1976 I aided in the introduction of TSO to the staff by testing it, creating a TSO user's guide, writing CLISTS, teaching classes in TSO, and making recommendations to the technical support personnel about TSO. I worked on TSO administration, managing user id's. I automated the administration by writing CLISTS, TSO native mode commands, utilities, JCL, Assembler language programs, and MVS utilities. At another major insurance company I was introduced to REXX on CMS, and there wrote a user guide for programmers on REXX. When TSO REXX became available in 1988, I began working with it. Several years of that led to the creation of my book \"REXX in the TSO Environment.\" As a programming contractor, I automated the transfer of an entire data center's JCL and procedures to another data center, using REXX, IBM utilities, and TSO\/ISPF panels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 258\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 11 x 8.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43427112878147,"sku":"9781508668497","price":32.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/store7994.com\/products\/tso-clist-to-tso-rexx-conversion-handbook-paperback","provider":"STORE 7994","version":"1.0","type":"link"}