McKown, John wrote:
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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
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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.
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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.
All true. So start your own company, become a Partnerworld
member, set up on Dallas like we have, and develop in your
copious spare time from the comfort of your home :-) .
Just a year or two away from riches. So they tell me.
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Kind regards,
-Steve Comstock
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