I think there's a lot more to it then just a new GUI. The engine behind
Zowe is an API layer which will enable vendors and customers to
integrate tools. The Zowe GUI is modern web tech using Angular/React and
other cutting edge technologies
so everything will run in a browser or mobile devices. Editors will use
new standards like the Language Server Protocol and will be able to move
seamlessly between browsers or PCs to reside on either the cloud or
desktop. That's
a hell of a lot more compelling then Eclipse plugins. If you want to
reach out to young people to work on mainframes they will expect this
kind of technology. It seems absurd but there a is huge amount of young
people out there using
VS Code or Atom editors using Vim emulation! Why not add ISPF emulation
for the old timers?
There is also much emphasis on a CLI which is critical for automated
builds and deployments. Zowe is more marketing then substance at the
moment but give it time and we should start to see cool things coming
online soon.
Of course ISPF isn't going anywhere soon. We teach the young guys 3270
and they learn in with no problems and for a whole lot of use cases it's
better and more efficient in terms of user interaction. Young devs these
days spend a lot of
time in a comand shell typing commands. But for a lot of things like
editors or anything that benefits from graphics the GUI is the go.
On 7/01/2019 11:45 am, Phil Smith III wrote:
Thanks, Matt. That's a substantive answer, and I think confirms what I had
posited, more or less.
Put another way, it's "Windows 1.0 for z/OS". That's not a bad thing, but remember that
Windows didn't really start to be successful until it left the "fullscreen shell over
linemode" paradigm. Yes, it's 30 years later, so things have evolved somewhat, but my concern
with this approach is safety: it's bad enough when you do the wrong thing and fall off the cliff
into linemode-land. It's worse when you do the wrong thing and you *don't* fall off the cliff, but
things keep on going.
I'm hopeful that experience with the Linux GUIs (GNOME et al.) is sufficient to
prove my fears groundless.
.phsiii
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