Showing posts with label Rexx Programming Basics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rexx Programming Basics. Show all posts

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Rexx Programming Basics

Hi Folks,


              To start from the scratch . Rexx programming is done to basically automate few regular and frequent operations on data. Not restricting to Main Frame it can be used to create tools for any language. A simple example would be if there is a need to change a pin code starting with 145 to 551 which is repeated a 1000 times in your data. You can write a Rexx tool to change everything in seconds. But there's lot interesting in Rexx to do. One of the foremost thing to note in rexx is there is no kind of a syntax , data type declaration in Rexx. So its easy to learn learn. So common lets REXX!!!




Rexx Language is NOT case sensitive.Rexx Programming is mostly used in conversions , SQL Query generation with a set of input's you have. To write a set of mathematical instructions and execute it for all the data you. Going forward I will Post basic Program's in Rexx. And the various places you can use rexx and benefit using this very easy programming language.