I had a little play with it a few years ago, and it also had another
advantage, as I recall. Every time you started a new session, you got a
new window, and so jumping from one ISPF "window" was made much easier.
The edit killed it for me though. I did think of trapping the TCP/IP
output from the host, and writing a new Windows interface for it.
Maybe IBM could do that for all its users?
Also, speaking of START, and jumping around various ISPF screens, the
early versions of Borland Turbo C and Pascal used to have a number on
one of the status lines in square brackets showing the number of
(hidden) windows you had open. By pressing on or tabbing to one of
these numbers, you could jump straight to the appropriate window. Very,
very time saving.....
Cheers,
Clement Clarke
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Kuredjian, Michael wrote:
Does anyone know where I can download the installer for windows? The sysadmins
for our MF have removed the dataset containing the member required.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Thu 8/17/2006 10:46 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Anyone using graphical ISPF?
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:58:21 -0400, Kuredjian, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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If so, how do you like it? What advantages does it offer over standard ISPF?
No.
o It's cumbersome and unesthetic, particularly in the way it formats an EDIT
panel with each line appearing as an individual 3-d shaded text entry area.
o It requires a specialized display "agent" running on each display server,
rather than employing a portable display protocol such as X11. (Is there
an agent available for OS X? Linux (what hardware platforms?) Other
(specify)?)
o The ATTN key doesn't work.
OTOH:
o If started from batch it bypasses VTAM restrictions, allowing multiple
interactive ISPF sessions for a single user on a single host.
o It allows circumvention of certain restricted licenses which limit the
number of interactive TSO users. (Don't tell IBM.)
-- gil
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