> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of David Crayford > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 2:10 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: GUI vs 3270 Re: MVS Quick Reference, was: LookAT > > 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? > > 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.
Not I. If I compare a typical 3270-interface and a typical PC/WEB-interface I generally can observe that the response times is about 50 times better in the 3270-interface. It's also generally less "cluttered" and easier to handle. OTOH a typical gui interface can often have more and more advanced/modern functions etc. And the possibility to display much more information at one time in a relatively more readable format. This is from my experiences from both my employers intranet and from internet and PC applications in general. Best Regards Thomas Berg ___________________________________________________________________ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS\RQM\IT Delivery SWEDBANK AB (Publ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
