Don't adjust the meds yet John. There are products that will fulfill your dreams (this time) such as our z/Web-Host and z/XML-Host products. Check our web site for a live TSO demo running in your browser.
Chuck Arney illustro Systems International, LLC http://www.illustro.com Access 3270 data from anywhere with z/XML-Host Access 3270 apps from the web with z/Web-Host Access CMS minidisks from z/OS or z/VSE with CMSACCess Voice: 214-800-8900 Fax: 214-451-6394 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This e-mail is private and may be confidential and is for the intended recipient only. If misdirected, please notify us by telephone and confirm that it has been deleted from your system and any copies destroyed. If you are not the intended recipient you are strictly prohibited from using, printing, copying, distributing or disseminating this e-mail or any information contained in it. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * We use reasonable measures to virus scan all E-mails leaving illustro but no warranty is given that this E-mail and any attachments are virus free. You should ensure you have adequate measures in place for your own virus checking. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of McKown, John > Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 12:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Friday musings on the future of 3270 applications > > I was just thinking about this today. I know that CICS can run without > 3270 at all. Either as a type of Web Server itself, or by using SOAP, or > other "ad hoc" TCPIP interfacing done by a company (we do this, some), > or even with MQSeries (where we are going). So it is quite possible to > envision a future for CICS without a 3270 interface active at all. > > I don't know if IMS/DC has this sort of thing, or if it is even > necessary to have IMS/DC if one wants to "webify" their IMS interface. > > But what about TSO? Does anybody think that TSO might be some how > "extended" so that it can "natively" talk to something like a Web > browser? Or is such a thing even necessary? What about the possibility > of "decoupling" ISPF from TSO 3270 entirely? It might be interesting to > be able to run ISPF applications from a UNIX shell. WSA is something > like this, but incomplete in that a person can run a "native" TSO > program (which does not use ISPF services for terminal display) and the > "line mode" TSO goes to the 3270 session. In addition, WSA requires a > specialized client on the workstation. Mighten it be interesting to be > able to use the WSA interface via a standards-compliant Web browser > (that is, I.E. or Firefox or Opera or ????)? This would open it up to > Linux and Mac users in addition to Windows users. A plus in my book. But > perhaps not enough of a plus for the development by IBM. <sigh> If the > WSA protocol were documented by IBM, I might even take a shot at > implementing a client in Java (I'm weird - I like Java fairly well.) > > Has anybody considered running "something" which uses subsystem SVC > screening to "trap" the TSO terminal I/O SVCs, such as TGET, TPUT, and > TPG and then converting this to "something else" such as XML or HTML to > ship to a different client? I think that BMC has something like this > because they have an interface other than IKJEFT01 to run some of their > TSO based Mainview displays. Or they did in the past. I remember doing > this so that I would eat up my TSO region running Mainview. > > Ah, well, do I need to adjust my meds again? <GRIN>. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
