Incremental Development is a reality
The powerful interactive source-level debugging capability and the fast development cycle of the REXX interpreter helps improve productivity. The interpreter, with its fast, natural development cycle, and excellent source-based interactive debugging, facilitates the transition to an Incremental Development Methodology (also known as Prototyping Development Methodology).
With this methodology, REXX can be used for quick and expressive prototyping. Because of the special performance techniques used and robustness of the language, REXX is also suitable for professional application development.
REXX for CICS provides and environment to develop prototypes quickly to test system feasibility. Prototyping helps reduce the chances of errors later in the development cycle. This can also help determine the feasibility of a project. An additional benefit of incremental development is that the code is tested more thoroughly during development and may result in much higher quality.
Facilitates Systems Management
One of the major uses of REXX is a Procedures (Scripting) Language. REXX for CICS can be used to automate sequences of CICS system and application systems management activities, providing greater productivity and reliability.
Since REXX for CICS supports application development and testing directly under CICS, systems management can be simplified. For example, some CICS developers may no longer need to have a TSO user ID (in certain situations). Reducing the volume of TSO user Ids that need to be administered and managed can mean a reduction in systems management activities.
Web Data & Programming
REXX for CICS is great for Web-based programming. The file systems hierarchical naming system maps well to Web naming conventions and is very convenient for Web-based applications that need to associate data in a repository with names in URL format. The excellent string handling facilities of REXX for CICS are just what s required for the presentation programs of a Web-based application.
Year 2000
This product is Year 2000 ready. When used in accordance with it’s associated documentation, it is capable of correctly processing, providing, and/or receiving date data within and between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, provided that all products (for example, hardware, software, and firmware) used with the product properly exchange accurate date data with it.
Solutions for Business People
Quite often, business people who best understand the business and their required solutions have ideas on modifying or enhancing the applications they use. However, without excessive training and experience with a programming language, they may not be able to implement the ideas. REXX for CICS makes it possible for CICS application users to customise and even extend applications without expending scarce programmer resources. This allows you to tailor applications to your individual business needs. REXX for CICS facilitates the use of prototyping methodology. Users can participate very closely in the application development process. The end result is that those who have the best understanding of the business and their own needs can better ensure that the application solution delivered matches their needs. This close involvement has the added benefit of addressing human factor needs (usability) earlier in the application development cycle.
