I was skeptical about option 3.4 when it first came out. I knew all of *my* data set names and I was a good typist. I cannot live without a data set list manager now.
On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 16:22 Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote: > Reminds me of a coworker at an insurance company in Ohio I worked at a > couple times. He'd write down a list of user IDs on a scrap of paper, walk > the paper back to my desk and ask me to investigate some aspect of them. > As this kept happening, I started asking him why he didn't just forward the > original email rather than writing down the IDs and then making me enter > them into my terminal again. I think it was just his habit. > > Finally I put my foot now: Not accepting any more scraps of paper. Send > me the email! He did it, too. Maybe he was just old-fashioned. Maybe he > still is. > > When I first started reading the reasons we should all adopt Windows, two > of the reasons didn't impress me. One was the "consistent user > interface". I'd been using WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, Harvard Graphics etc, > and of course the mainframe, and I didn't see any difficulty about using > <PF3> for END on one and <F3> for "find again" in another. I still don't. > Consistent interface is fine, but it's not a necessity in my view. > > The other reason was the ability to cut and paste between different > applications. I was contemptuous: How hard does it have to be to type out > a phone number a second time? Big deal. Boy, was I wrong about that! > > --- > Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 > > /* In Scripture the visitation of an angel is always alarming; it has to > begin by saying "Fear not". The Victorian angel looks as if it were going > to say "There, there". -C S Lewis, from a preface to _The Screwtape > Letters_ */ > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf > Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Monday, April 17, 2023 12:57 > > I've been a link down that chain, and irritated when users provided > diagnostics as image screenshots rather than text. The emulator popular > with them provided image as default; text as an option, but the setup was > obscure. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
