[email protected] (Jesse 1 Robinson) writes: > ISPF was far more than a product rename, though IBM gets snaps for > repurposing an acronym almost seamlessly. The major advance in ISPF > was the modern day 'dialog' and all the rich support we associate with > it. In the old SPF, it was unofficially possible for a clever person > to tailor an existing function to perform some user purpose. We had > some of those in my first shop in the late 70s. But the results were > clumsy and primitive at best. ISPF opened up a whole new career path > that encompassed application programmers on one side and sysprogs on > the other. Everyone had fully documented access to a brand new arsenal > of APARable programming tools. I read once that IBM was astonished at > the huge and complex 'data bases' that customers created around ISPF > tables. Far beyond the expectation of ISPF's creators.
Some IBM software organizations had trouble adapting to the 23Jun1969 unbundling announcement starting to charging for software (& other stuff). past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle Pricing would do three forecats (high, medium, low) ... where number customer forecasted times price would have to cover development and support. JES2 NJI couldn't come up with forecast that met requirement. Company then adjusted that doing the financials for group would be satisfactory. They made a combined announcement of JES2 NJI and VM370 RSCS of $600/month that met the requirements (i.e. RSCS could have been announced at $30/month and met the requirement whereas there was no price for JES2 NJI that met the requirement). Later they adjusted it so products just had to be in the same group/organization. They combined ISPF and VM370 performance products in the same product group. They cut the VM370 performance products to 2-3 people while the ISPF had *very* large group ... in effect, revenue from VM370 performance products underwriting ISPF. past posts mentioning ISPF: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#17 Where's all the VMers? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#33 XEDIT on MVS http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#52 Microsoft's innovations [was:the rtf format] http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#0 VSPC http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#42 misc. dmksnt http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004c.html#26 Moribund TSO/E http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#43 Sequence Numbbers in Location 73-80 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#7 TSO replacement? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#8 TSO replacement? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#15 HASP/ASP JES/JES2/JES3 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#40 FULIST http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#50 TSO and more was: PDP-1 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#21 Source maintenance was Re: SEQUENCE NUMBERS http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#13 What part of z/OS is the OS? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#3 THE on USS? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#4 ISPF Limitations (was: Need for small machines ... ) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#5 Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#14 ISPF not productive http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#50 IBM to the PCM market http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#8 whiny question: Why won't z/OS support the HMC 3270 emulator http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#69 ServerPac Installs and dataset allocations http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#40 Why isn't OMVS command integrated with ISPF? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#43 handling the SPAM on this group http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#62 CHROME and WEB apps on Mainframe? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#59 ISPF Counter http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#60 ISPF Counter http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#46 DEC-10 SOS Editor Intra-Line Editing http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#6 Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#7 Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#50 Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#51 Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#54 Unix systems and Serialization mechanism http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#84 Set numbers off permanently http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#33 Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#85 REXX "address" environments http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#30 Philosophy: curiousity question http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#32 CMS Sort Descending? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#19 When is performance really an issue? Was: Running an ISPF applicction from one pds http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#20 When is performance really an issue? Was: Running an ISPF applicction from one pds http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#42 CMS load module format http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#21 The "IBM Displays" Memory Lane (Was: TSO SCREENSIZE) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#84 Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#106 SPF in 1978 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#53 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#85 The PC industry is heading for collapse http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#19 Writing article on telework/telecommuting http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#20 Writing article on telework/telecommuting http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#63 Typeface (font) and city identity http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#53 Image if someone built a general-menu-system http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#33 Using NOTE and POINT simulation macros on CMS? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#64 Should you support or abandon the 3270 as a User Interface? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#84 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#36 The Subroutine Call http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#27 Unbuffered glass TTYs? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#44 Resistance to Java http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#89 Real Programmers http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#103 TSO Test does not support 65-bit debugging? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#5 "F[R]eebie" software http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#25 another question about TSO edit command http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#48 IBM 'major announcement' points to deal on chip manufacturing -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
