TSO TEST is very limited and labor intensive. Both HLASM tool kit and TSO test are maintained by IBM. The tool kit is certainly far more usable than TSO TEST. Why should IBM enhance both when the tool kit is far more important? If you want to be productive, you should look at the other debuggers than TSO TEST. They may cost money but you make up for their cost in time savings. I've only used z/XDC but it has full screen and interfaces with the program listing. I could test programs in the environment where they were designed to run rather than just under TSO.
As for being dead, how much much more should TSO grow? More important to everyone is the new workload. TSO is not where that workload is running. More effort to new workload will help keep z/OS relevant. IBM certainly has a strange view on what z/OS represents. z/OS has been a cloud environment years before CLOUD was coined but they won't say that it's a cloud environment. I suspect customers don't realize that z/OS has always been a cloud. Instead, they market SaaS, pure systems and other technologies. Comparing UNIX versus z/OS as cloud environments, z/OS has been the better cloud environment. For example, around 2000, UNIX finally allowed dynamic increase in file system size while z/OS has been able to add / remove disks many years before. z/OS allows workload balancing across the sysplex where as UNIX must break workload into work unit's (e.g. database server runs on a single UNIX system but z/OS can run a DB2 server concurrently on all systems within the sysplex). UNIX is proud they don't have anything like records in files but z/OS record level sharing could be very important in easing file restrictions within the clould. Why doesn't IBM management market z/OS as a flagship cloud environment? Jon Perryman On Thursday, July 3, 2014 9:42 AM, Dana Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > >On Thu, 3 Jul 2014 11:23:38 -0500, Ed Gould <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>The question is (at least in my mind) TSO dead? > >The probably < 1 FTE left allocated to support native TSO commands has to priortize his/her projects. In IBM's view, would adding 64 bit support to TSO TEST increase their profit? If not, it probably won't happen. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
