On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 06:40:39 -0700, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
>Many moons ago we ported a product from z/OS to the AS/400 and were similarly >impressed with the sorts of things you mention. The OS was solid as a rock. Hear, hear ! > >There is a major learning curve Having gone down that path, I have to contradict this statement. OK, granted, there are a few quirks one has to get used to, but the fact that the whole system, from the hardest "real system-programmer" stuff to the development, to the end user is really consistent in the way things behave and are presented, makes it IMHO easy to grasp. > -- the darned thing is unlike any other computer. That is true. > Also as I recall a lot of services were only available via panels -- like if > ISPF were the *only* way to accomplish certain z/OS tasks. This is no longer true. In the recent versions of the OS, there are numerous API's available to call from CL, COBOL, C, even Java, that do almost everything and anything. Cheers, Jantje. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
