Re:Consider Rexx for Scripting (2022)
by nocman on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @03:33PM
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That makes perfect sense to me. I've never seen anyone use Rexx outside of an IBM-heavy environment.
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Re:Consider Rexx for Scripting (2022)
by rodgerd on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @05:08PM
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Anyone wanting to do non-trivial scripting and owning an Amiga from Workbench 2 onward.
Yes, sadly I was not rich enough as a kid to own an Amiga. By the time I could have afforded one, it would have been more for the novelty of having one than something practical for me to spend money on.
REXX was often used as the scripting language for IVR systems. I haven’t touched an IVR system in 18 years so no idea if it still is.
Yeah, the main references I found to IVR systems and REXX were from IBM articles discussing IVR, and some open-source Asterisk-based systems using ooRexx that appear to have been created as an open-source alternative to IBM OS/2 IVR solutions that used REXX.
OS/2 is the primary environment where I had experience reading and writing REXX a long time ago. I was also aware of it being used in IBM mainframe systems, but I had no direct experience there.
My last experience with IVR and REXX was setting up a system in the mid-2000s to do identity verification for loan applicants. I can't remember the name of the software. It ran on Windows server and wasn't an IBM product.
I also used REXX on OS/2 systems including doing some development using Watcom VX-REXX which you can basically think of as Visual Basic but with REXX. I released a GUI FTP program I developed with it to the OS/2 BBS but last I looked couldn't find it in the OS/2 BBS archives.