From: "Edward E. Jaffe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Your idea of passing 327x streams to a socket is weak compared to what WSA
already does. You're making the classic mistake of confusing the WSA
(Workstation Agent) with the ISPF GUI.
The ISPF GUI is just one component of the WSA. Other capabilities of WSA
include the ability to edit workstation files on the mainframe or mainframe
files on the workstation, the ability to transfer members to/from the
workstation simply by selecting them from a member list, etc. Please
understand, these features are available even if you're using ISPF from a
3270 emulator!
IBM went to considerable trouble to develop the WSA and integrate it with
ISPF. Unfortunately, most users take one look at the GUI, say "Yuck", and
move on -- thus remaining completely ignorant of the WSA's most-powerful
features. If more people learned how useful the WSA can be, there would be
more "mind share" generated. More "mind share" means more enhancements.
More enhancements means more "mind share". And so on ...
Ed,
I can't believe it. I wrote my response about the WSA (and even renamed the
subject to 'WSA versus ISPGUI') before reading your response. Our comments
about the WSA being confused with ISPGUI were almost identical!
:-)
Dave Salt
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