Bernd Oppolzer wrote: >We used GDDM and 3279 G (IIRC) displays to do preview of our plotter outputs >..... ... This was in the 1985 to 1995 time frame. After that, the applications moved off the mainframe, to Unix workstations.
Around 1990 - 2000, I and some of my colleagues used GDDM to display on a 3270 screen (PCOMM IIRC) the SAS graphs produced from SMF data. If the pic is looking great, neat and accurate, then we plot that on a desktop plotter. Now, today I am wondering how the graphs were transferred. I simply can't remember how these plotters are connected to the PCs and how the emulator screen is transferred to a plotter. Granted, those plotters were setup before I worked with them. It was great 'fun' if someone who used the plotter, forgot to replace the pen caps back after usage... ;-) ... You then sit with dry pens and no available wet pens while managements wants the pics NOW!!! These days, we don't use any plotters at all. We are still have these ADM... DD statements in our TSO procs in case someone wants to use them. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
