John, FWIW, TSO/ISPF is still in very wide use at my shop. No Eclipse-based tools for mainframe developers that I am aware of, I think mainly due to $$$$ per developer.
I do play around with z/OS Explorer myself, but I'm the unusual one. No serious use, just playing. Off-mainframe developers all have their own various setups of course, we have a lot of those as well. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2018 9:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: z/OS "interactive computing" - AKA TSO/ISPF or UNIX shell As many may know, where I work now is really behind the times. So I thought that I'd ask here about what is the current methodology for program development. What I'm really getting at is whether people continue to use TSO ISPF or have most shops gone to using the Eclipse based "IBM Explorer for z/OS" (or is it "Rational Developer"? - what about the irrational developers, what do they use? :-}) Personally, I don't like TSO very much. I like ISPF fairly well. I wish that ISPF would could be run from a z/OS UNIX shell (the way TSO ISPF runs under a "TSO shell"). Any good YouTube videos that I could watch? Of course, the problem with that is that I'm not allowed to "waste bandwidth" watching videos here at work, so I end up watching them at home (when I do) instead of "Father Brown" episodes. -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
