Re: CICS/BMS greenies to GUI's

2008-05-14 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
Graham Hobbs wrote: Craig - I can't read CBT775; its a zip containing one .XMI; on a PC, what can read a .XMI? Would really like to look into this one. You really started something with POX:-) This may be more work than it's worth, but there is a mainframe simulator named Hercules at

Re: CICS/BMS greenies to GUI's

2008-05-14 Thread Shane Ginnane
Craig - I can't read CBT775; its a zip containing one .XMI; on a PC, what can read a .XMI? Would really like to look into this one. Xmit manager - front page of cbttape.org. Excellent piece of work. Fine if you just want to look at the package. If you want somewhere to play, you might have

Re: CICS/BMS greenies to GUI's

2008-05-14 Thread Shedlock, George
Graham, I had to ask. ;) (snip) Craig - I can't read CBT775; its a zip containing one .XMI; on a PC, what can read a .XMI? Would really like to look into this one. You really started something with POX:-) (/snip) If you go to http://cbttape.org on the top left part of the page is a link

Re: CICS/BMS greenies to GUI's

2008-05-14 Thread Graham Hobbs
About the XMI info - thanks. - Original Message - From: Shedlock, George [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:01 AM Subject: Re: CICS/BMS greenies to GUI's Graham, I had to ask. ;) (snip) Craig - I can't

Re: CICS/BMS greenies to GUI's

2008-05-13 Thread Timothy Sipples
There are lots of ways to provide alternative user interfaces to CICS. The best answer will depend at least a little bit on what development approach you prefer. Questions people might ask to determine the best choice include: How are you generating BMS macros today? Do you need to maintain dual

Re: CICS/BMS greenies to GUI's

2008-05-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill Klein This note was posted directly to the USENET newsgroup and hasn't had many replies. I am forwarding it to the list-server, to see if more people have input on it. (It is also in the comp.lang.cobol

Re: CICS/BMS greenies to GUI's

2008-05-13 Thread Chuck Arney
There are also software products, such as our z/Web-Host product, that work at the 3270 data stream level instead of the BMS level. This allows operation outside of the CICS environment so that no CICS resources are consumed by the process. HTML can be dynamically generated by the product or

Re: CICS/BMS greenies to GUI's

2008-05-13 Thread Schneiderwent, Craig
Responding to the other possibilities portion, you might find http://www.cbttape.org/ftp/updates/CBT775.zip interesting. It's the code to go with SHARE presentation 8247 User Experience: Writing a web-enabled CICS/COBOL program. This is _not_ a method to generate a GUI or HTML from your BMS

Re: CICS/BMS greenies to GUI's

2008-05-13 Thread Graham Hobbs
. ? - whoever mentioned Rational Developer for Systemz - yes am looking into it. - Original Message - From: Bill Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 7:41 PM Subject: Fw: CICS/BMS greenies to GUI's This note

Fw: CICS/BMS greenies to GUI's

2008-05-12 Thread Bill Klein
This note was posted directly to the USENET newsgroup and hasn't had many replies. I am forwarding it to the list-server, to see if more people have input on it. (It is also in the comp.lang.cobol newsgroup). Graham Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hello, Big

Re: CICS/BMS greenies to GUI's

2008-05-12 Thread Graham Hobbs
Thanks Bill. - Original Message - From: Bill Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 7:41 PM Subject: Fw: CICS/BMS greenies to GUI's This note was posted directly to the USENET newsgroup and hasn't had many