Disclosure, I've used PComm, Vista, Attachmate Extra, IBM HOD, Mocha, Hummingbird and a few other emulators that I don’t recall.
I find Hummingbird not terribly intuitive or set up well to customize it to make it more suitable for what I do. For example, I have to use TSO file transfer (FTP is restricted) and Hummingbird "guesses" at what the transfer type is and it's almost always wrong. I see no means to turn that off. It seems slow (could be environmental); especially on startup and opening the first emulator. Text Cut/paste puts commas all over the place. I can't find any setting in Hummingbird to stop that. It's not a matter of being forced to use this and I'm more familiar with the other emulators. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Grant Taylor Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2021 11:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: And the survey says... On 4/29/21 7:33 AM, Chuck Kreiter wrote: > My firm uses Hummingbird. As a sysprog, I loathe it. PCOMM and Vista > are the tops in the emulator space IMO. Would you please elaborate on what Hummingbird does / doesn't do that make you loath it as a sysprog? Or more generally, how the different capabilities of a terminal (emulator) influence it's use by -- what I'm presuming to be -- power users? Thank you for enlightening me. -- Grant. . . . unix || die ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
