> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock > Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 9:37 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: ISPF Counter >
<snip> > Hey, John, here's an opportunity for you: write your own - > ISPF in a browser. > > Serve pages using one of the free HTTP servers, the pages > can be standard HTML; use JavaScript in your pages and AJAX > style techniques in the pages; CSS - style sheets let each > user really have unique look; browser built-ins or plug-ins > or your own widgets can provide GUI stuff in the front end; > > On the back end use CGIs or GWAPI plug-ins to issue TSO > or MVS commands and trap the results and format the data > into HTML. > > All the pieces are free, so your only expense is time. > Then you can sell the result for a modest fee (lots less > than RD/z) and retire from your company job. > > You've got the skills, you can do it. > > -- > > Kind regards, > > -Steve Comstock Thank you for the kind remarks. I __might__ have the skill. What I don't have is permission. And we do sub-capacity licensing. Which means that management watches what runs on the system like a hawk. Also, if I develop it on company time and hardware, then the software belongs to the company, not me. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
