[Info-vax] Moving IBM Mainframe and AS/400 applications to VMS ?, was: Re: Which programming language would you like to see officially supported on VMS ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-03-06, aarthur2 at gmail.com <aarthur2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, January 24, 2020 at 8:14:15 AM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> For the programming languages which are not currently available for VMS,
>> which of them would you like to see become available and officially
>> supported by VSI ?
>> 

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>> 
>> I'm asking just in case there are languages out there with a hidden
>> underlying desire by their users to run on VMS that VSI or the rest
>> of the VMS community are not aware of.
>> 
>
> Then there is always RPG III (if not IV) - give a path off of those AS400's. It was available on VMS back in the early day - I did some development for a client back in the day.  
>

Interesting. For something like that, isn't it more the case that the
environment itself also needs to be emulated instead of just providing
an implementation of the programming language ?

A standard scripting language on z/OS is REXX:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexx

Does it also get used a lot on the AS/400 series ?

> If interested in its history, Wikipedia had something to say: https://www.bing.com/search?q=RPG+iii&go=Search&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&pq=rpg+iii&sc=6-7&sk=&cvid=5C327FF61555478A9D43D8F196825F23
>
> - You asked...
>

Yes I did and thanks for the suggestion.

To those of you more familiar with this, is there any viable path for
moving these applications from the IBM world to the VMS world ?

Simon.

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