On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:09 AM, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/12/2013 9:05 PM, John McKown wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Arthur Fichtl <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> I'm just curious whether anybody out there has MVS Quick Reference from >>> Chicago Soft installed. >>> At my former assignment we had it and used it extensively. MVSQR is much >>> more powerful than Lookat and it provides a comfortable UI. >>> >>> Note: I'm not affiliated with that company, just a user. >>> >>> Arthur >>> >>> >>> Oh, yes! If we didn't have it, the programmers would be unable to do >> their >> job. And Production Control would be out for blood (management's). My >> manager uses the DASD information as the corner stone of his space >> reporting. >> >> >> > Would they be seduced by a GUI? > Most likely, yes. If it had the ability to "read" the z/OS job output somehow so that they could "double click" on something and then have the GUI interface pop up a dialog box, or even a browser page. I am not sure, but I think that they'd like the RD/z package. Of course, that is much more expensive than TSO/ISPF and so it totally out of the question around here. > > I wonder how many mainframers would stick to what they're comfortable with > even if a GUI interface came along that totally nuked the old school UI. > I might be one of those. But I would at least look at it to see if _I_ thought that it "totally nuked" the old UI. I use Linux/Intel by preference (at home) and Windows (because I am force to at work). And I always have a number of command line prompts running on Linux (not Windows). I usually only use a GUI for things that I think "need" it. For me, that would be like a word processor, spread sheet, graphics package, etc. > > > -- This is clearly another case of too many mad scientists, and not enough hunchbacks. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
