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From: "Dave Salt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I couldn't agree more. However, anyone who thinks the standard ISPF
interface is the only mainframe interface available has absolutely NO idea
what they're missing.
Making things worse is that the capabilities of the standard ISPF interface
are poorly understood, even among people who use it every day and who ought
to be 'experts'. Before you say this isn't the case at your shop, ask
yourselve these questions:
How many users in your shop know that their emulator mouse can be used to
launch point-and shoot functions on the mainframe?
How many even know that point-and-shoot exists?
Are they at least using 3.4 most of the time?
Do they use the Edit HILITE subcommand?
How about Edit COMPARE?
Putting ISPF aside for a moment, do they know about DFSORT symbols? How
about IF/ENDIF in JCL streams? Or are they still coding and testing as if
this was 1989?
These are not obscure or arcane features, and can be easily mastered by any
user. Yet so many fail to use them.
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