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I need a good book on Rexx
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There are not too many but the first place to look is Amazon. I learned by using "The Rexx Language (A Practical Approach to Programming - second edition)" by Mike Cowlishaw and "Modern Programming using Rexx" by Robert P O'Hara and David Roos Gomberg.
The author of the first, which is generally referred to as TRL2, is the guy who wrote Rexx in the first place.
These 2 books and the manuals for the varous dialects are all I use. Neither book covers EXECIO which is the file read/write module used on the mainframe.
There is a book by Howard Fosdick "REXX programmer to programmer" which claims to be the only book you will need for Rexx but then, several times, tells you to look at the manuals.
The author of the first, which is generally referred to as TRL2, is the guy who wrote Rexx in the first place.
These 2 books and the manuals for the varous dialects are all I use. Neither book covers EXECIO which is the file read/write module used on the mainframe.
There is a book by Howard Fosdick "REXX programmer to programmer" which claims to be the only book you will need for Rexx but then, several times, tells you to look at the manuals.
I have the book from Fosdick - see
But this book is not specialized for mainframe REXX. It covers basics of REXX language and describes several REXX interpreters for several platforms.
IMHO it's good book.
But: I would suggest you to use IBM REXX manuals. I'm programming on IBM iSeries and I'm using IBM REXX/400 manuals - I find they are good.
The IBM manuals for z/OS are freely available. I found 3 REXX manuals here:
For starting with REXX for zSeries, try to look at this TSO/E REXX User’s Guide
Or buy a book on REXX and combine it with the IBM REXX manuals.
But this book is not specialized for mainframe REXX. It covers basics of REXX language and describes several REXX interpreters for several platforms.
IMHO it's good book.
But: I would suggest you to use IBM REXX manuals. I'm programming on IBM iSeries and I'm using IBM REXX/400 manuals - I find they are good.
The IBM manuals for z/OS are freely available. I found 3 REXX manuals here:
For starting with REXX for zSeries, try to look at this TSO/E REXX User’s Guide
Or buy a book on REXX and combine it with the IBM REXX manuals.
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