> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 4:28 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: GUI vs 3270 Re: MVS Quick Reference, was: LookAT > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:38:10 +0100, Thomas Berg wrote: > >> > >> 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. > > > But do you have a real 3270 or one emulated on a GUI host?
Ok, you have a point here. :) But the 3270-emulator is really as fast as needed to practically match real 3270 in response times (normally). (It's really just a communication/terminal program.) 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
