Unix and Windows have a lot of similarities. User interfaces are often similar. Most users will continue using those if possible.
z/OS has TSO, CICS and IMS. We have webservers. We can run X-window clients. We can run Emacs. The ability exists. The problem is that the desire is not there and it's not cheap. People are creatures of habit and most don't like change. In my early days, I worked for a company that couldn't throw money away fast enough so we could buy anything we wanted (equipment would show up and they would tell me to make it do something useful). We literally had to remove card punches forcing them to use the terminals. Even with that, they still insisted on using full screen librarian which was a split screen with source displayed at the top and you entered librarian change statements at the bottom. Basically the same as when we used the card punches. I convinced many to use the VM editor but even by the time I left, there was still a few using that program. Jon Perryman. >________________________________ > From: David Crayford <[email protected]> > > >On 6/11/2013 12:37 AM, John Gilmore wrote: >> I do of course agree that z/OS is perceived to be boring, but that is >> another question. > >I don't think it's perceived as boring, certainly it's perceived as user >hostile. Take Pauls cp command example, it's easy to copy files >using a simple command. For those that prefer GUIs they can drag and drop or >copy/paste. On the mainframe one has no choice but >to run JCL. JCL certainly is an antique, and a very unpleasant one. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
