The author of RXS is Morten Bøgh.
Comments on RXS are welcome on email: mboegh©dxc.com
Initial
distribution of the language on the web.
New
versions:
RXS
(rexx), RXSDO (cobol) and
RXSGEM (cobol)
·
Output
logical record length changed to 32756 as default.
·
Constraints
on XML reading changed.
New
versions:
RXSDO
(cobol) RXSGEM (cobol)
· Minor changes
New versions:
RXSDO (cobol) RXS (rexx)
·
RACF
problem in MQSeries browse sorted out
·
Support
for PC (and LAN) connect added
New
versions
RXS
(rexx)
· minor changes
Major
revision of documentation. Adding UNIX support.
New
versions:
RXSDO
(cobol) RXS (rexx)
2009, May 28
Better
UNIX support.
Conversions
between ascii, UTF-8 and ebcdic added
New
versions:
RXSDO
(cobol) RXS (rexx)
2010, january 28
An
error in UNIX reading is fixed.
Rules
for record length changed.
New
versions:
RXSDO
(cobol) RXS (rexx)
2010, april 07
RXSDO
cobol program is now in accordance with COBOL rel. 4
and is COBOL SSRANGE compatible
Problems
regarding english / american
ebcdic in RXS is sorted out
RXS
panel is now named RXSPAN
Downloading
source is now done using a ZIP-file
New
versions:
RXSDO
(cobol) RXS (rexx) RXSPAN
(panel)
2010, juli 10
New
function added: CHANGE (section 39)
Better
support of long UNIX hfs-files.
New
versions:
RXSDO
(cobol) RXS (rexx)
2010, october 28
RXSDO
cobol program: XML interpreter is now using zOS XML System Services
New
versions:
RXSDO
(cobol) RXS (rexx)
2011, March 28
RXSDO
cobol program: UTF-8 reading is re-programmed using a
different approach.
RXS:
handling of UNIX commands changed. Handling of programmed EXIT in background
execution is changed.
New
versions:
RXSDO
(cobol) RXS (rexx)
2011, June 15
New
function added: TIMESTAMP (section 40)
readlim added, mqlimit
removed, sqllimit removed
New
versions:
RXSDO
(cobol) RXS (rexx)
2012, November 14
)interface (section 39) is added
UNIX
permissions for created datasets changed (section 29)
New
versions:
RXSDO
(cobol) RXS (rexx)
2013, September 14
func='mbr' is omitted
DB2:
Default length of blob is corrected
Sorting
of more than 256 bytes (section 26)
Reading
generic dataset lists (section 09)
Reading
member-lists (section 09)
New
versions:
RXS
(rexx)
2014, Januar 8
)& marks continuation of )action
New
instructions: set_halt, set_message
stats(yes)
when creating a member list
New
versions:
RXSDO
(cobol) RXS (rexx)
2014, February 13
An
error in )interface is corrected
An
error in statistics in member lists is corrected
New
versions:
RXS
(rexx)
2014, April 10
An
error in )interface is corrected
SQL:
comments using '--' are accepted
New
versions:
RXS
(rexx)
2015, july 20
An
error in IBM REXXSQL is compensated: RXS issues a warning if a DB2 host
variable contains leading zero (section 20f)
Reading
UNIX directories (section 9)
Skip
start of file when reading: redstrt (section 9)
New
versions:
RXS
(rexx)
2015, december 28
An
error in IBM REXXSQL is corrected: RXS puts the variable in quotes if a DB2
host variable contains leading zero.
Error
when writing large members (more than 65535 lines) is corrected.
ISPF
statstics for members: some limitations have been
lifted.
New
versions:
RXSDO
(cobol, version 2015-12-22) RXS (rexx,
version 2015-12-22)
2016, october 9
New
way of calling RXS added: rxs ‘ourgrp.ourlib.ourtype(rxsmbr)’
Using )interface on queues containing two set of elements
Some
error messages have been adjusted.
New
versions:
RXS
(rexx, version 2016-09-23)
2017, february 25
New
order: sqlin (section 20)
RXS
failed when the program ended with an action block with no coding, not starting
in column 1. Corrected.
New
versions:
RXSDO
(Cobol, version 2017-02-16, RXS (rexx, version
2017-02-16)
2017, october 18
Some
correction of error messaging when RXS is running in batch.
New
versions:
RXSDO
(Cobol, version 2017–09-29, RXS (rexx, version
2017-02-16)
2019, september 06
Some
error handling changed: new messages
Reading
members from partitioned datasets: Performance optimized
Handling
af ‘return’ when using ‘interface’: Breaking the
dialogue is possible
Handling
of a unix-directory: Presentation is now in sort
order
New
versions:
RXSDO
(Cobol, version 2018-06-06, RXS (rexx, version
2019-08-19)
2022, March 12
XML:
reading from infile accepted. Minor changes in
interpretation of whitespace
set_halt message will overrule set_message
imbed is handled different
in batch: if possible, solved in an initial pre-screening of the RXS-program
Changed handling
of COBOL-line-numbers when handling as macro
New
versions:
RXSDO
(Cobol, version 2020-11-05, RXS (rexx, version 2022-02-16)