On 2012-05-22 14:56, Mike Shaw wrote:
Jeepers John, I gotta disagree with you on that one. How is '#' as a prompt any better than 'READY'? As far as messages,
As John says, you can customize that to be about anything you want; static or dynamic. Can you change the TSO "READY" prompt? I go the opposite direction from John. Screen space is too precious to spend on redundant information. Which brings me to: Why doesn't z/OS FTP client, even in shell line mode, let me reply to its "FTP>" prompt on the same line rather on the next line?
there is no way IMHO that a non-numbered set of UNIX or LINUX messages is superior to ANY numbered IBM messages for ease of understanding. Google lets you look up those unnumbered messages on the Internet and try to find some meaning, but without Google non-numbered messages are an abomination. My biggest pet peeve is the explanation that certain unnumbered messages are 'self explanatory'. What a crock... IBM was very smart to assign messages alphanumeric prefixes and to collect them in reference manuals for users to read and understand.
The problem there is, too often the message text is manifestly contrary to fact. If one starts a PMR on it, the response is too often, "The correct information is in M&C; you should be reading that instead of the message text. If we were to change it to be correct, it would possibly break a customer's automated ops which depend on the incorrect text." Ugh! -- gil
