From: Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Don,
Approximately 10 years ago a place where I was working had VM & MVS. I
won't go into the details but lets just say that in one day VM went "poof"
so they had to convert quite a few people from VM to ISPF/MVS.
I volunteered to create a course from scratch for ISPF. I gave 5 classes
to the "unwashed masses" as you put it. I had them up and running in
almost no time, it was a hands on class and everyone (except one) raved
about ISPF. Mind you I am *NOT* a wiz bang ISPF person, just a sysprog who
used it daily.
Now I know there are better editors but it works darn well (for me).
Ed,
Don mentioned in an earlier post that the ISPF editor is the 'gold standard'
(or something like that). He's not criticising the ISPF editor, and he's
certainly not the person who started this whole thread about ISPF not being
productive. Someone else posted a message in which they said something like
"ISPF was good in its day", and Don responded by saying something like "It's
still good if you have the right tools". In other words, he came to the
*defence* of ISPF. He also said words to the effect of "it could be better",
and gave some examples. Personally, I think he's bang on the mark.
Dave Salt
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