> >I know BMC did something like this with z/OS Explorer, but who would pay > >for it? No one I could find. > > > Is HOD anything of the sort?
Nope. Completely different. The z/OS System Explorer was/is a single address space server that provided a (Java) GUI interface for most of the things you would typically do under ISPF and SDSF. File browse/edit (using your own choice of editor), search/compare, dataset manipulation, job submission, job output management yada yada yada. And there were plans for a set of product functions that would plug into the same infrastructure and UI. It was a lot more efficient and easier to use for a lot of the most common things people do, but you couldn't really call it a replacement for TSO because among other things, it didn't do native TSO things like CLISTs etc. There were many differences from TSO, starting with the fact that it had nothing at all to do with TSO. The TMP was not used, even under the covers. There wasn't any screen scraping or terminal emulation. It was a real native multi-user GUI application that followed the MVS rules. To address the "who would pay for it?" question; the original business plan called for a per-seat license of a couple of hundred bucks per seat, which would be somewhat like an MS Office price. We got positive feedback from a bunch of customers for that price point. Unfortunately when the product was done, the pricing geniuses couldn't figure out how to do a per-seat deal and turned it into a tiered price monster starting at something like $25K for the bottom tier. It's no wonder nobody bought it at that sort of price. CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
