On Tuesday, 11/28/2017 at 08:28 GMT, Rob van der Heij <[email protected]> wrote: > I fear the discussion goes beyond what the IBMVM folks care about ...
I wouldn't say that. If LEXX would help me get the syntax of a pipe correct, I'd use it, even if I end up with a pipe that's correctly written to do the wrong thing. :-) But you do point out that today's world is one of DevOps where you can assemble an app from components. As you suggest, an XEDIT macro that helps me select the next stage(s) based on the output streams of the 'current' stage would be good, showing me sample data flowing through the pipe. With your animation. Finally, a good use for 3279 graphics? ;-) OK, fine, a web page that generates code I can copy/paste. I want to drag the pieces together to create the pipe I want. - Tear apart data - Find data - Rearrange data - Combine data - Change the order of processing - Sort by various criteria - Establish conditional selectionr - Data transformation - Data tagging (to create XML, HTML, spreadsheets) I want to see Tom Cruise use a holographic display to drag the parts together into a program. Rotate it. Look at it from multiple angles. Adjust it. It collapses into a smooth sphere when complete. (That's how you know what 'done' looks like.) Toss it into the toolbox for later use. Is that too much to ask? I don't think so.... Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant IBM Systems Lab Services IBM Z Delivery Practice ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 [email protected] IBM Endicott
