I've been working with the IBM Zexplorer now that I have it working as designed. The editors are not that great, but it does give me the ability to issue simple TSO command, rexx's (as long as I've defined the SYSPROC and SYSEXEC in the configuration) and A Unix shell, + the ability to view, modify, MVS files, view modify my USS files, submit jobs, and review output from one application. I seldom use it day to day, but once launched, I find it easy to use, and an easy way to copy files around.
Carmen Vitullo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Seymour J Metz" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2018 1:56:23 PM Subject: Re: z/OS "interactive computing" - AKA TSO/ISPF or UNIX shell The ISPF WSA has worked well for me, except that the GUI doesn't support block or multi-line copies. As for local SPF, the only decent one that I saw was Tritus SPF, and it's no longer available. If you can get the relevant bugs fixed then The Hessling Editor would be a good alternative, although it might be a culture shock if you've only used ISPF. I've always wanted an editor that combined the best features of ISPF/EDIT and XEDIT. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Steve Thompson <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2018 11:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: z/OS "interactive computing" - AKA TSO/ISPF or UNIX shell Where I am working, we use TSO/ISPF. We are working toward ISPW from Compuware and an associated product. I'd be tickled if I could get a client/server thing going so I could do editing on W10 and then upload and compile/assemble. Of course I would expect/want an ISPF emulation product in that case because I am very much tied to excluding lines, columnar oriented editing, etc. which the IDEs currently being used (so far as I know today) are oblivious to. If WYLBUR/AT would work, I'd be tickled pink, but it had a Y2K problem with Windows!! And Addlerspare and Associates no longer support it (I don't even know if they are in biz any more). Regards, Steve Thompson On 03/15/2018 09:25 AM, John McKown wrote: > 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. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
