On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:37:52 -0500, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>On Thursday, 01/11/2007 at 10:21 CST, Alan Ackerman ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I was hoping I wouldn't have to convert. Silly of me to expect them to >come to >> their senses. > >Everyone else gets to webify their "legacy" apps, so why not IBM? We ha ve >internal app development shops that are looking for ways to cut support & >development costs, too. And those new hires out of college are certainl y >not very good at 3270 programming, you know.... ;-) > >That the 3270 interface on IBMLink remained for 7 years (long past the >original sunset schedules) is a testimonial to the IBMLink team's >committment to you. They fought to keep it. Quite reasonably, TPTB don 't >like redundant investments and I was gratified by their ability to keep >both interfaces running for so long. > >Alan Altmark >z/VM Development >IBM Endicott >======================== ========================= ========== ============== I'm not opposed to webifying the application. I seem to remember a SHARE Task Force trying to convince IBM to use the Internet (for software downloads, dump uploads, e tc.) I just object to them throwing away perfectly good function and either not replacing it at all or hiding it so well. They did a really poor job of webifying it. It seems in seven years they could have moved over all the existing funct ion. They kept telling us more was coming -- where is it? You say they fought to keep green screen, while I had the impression that they were dragging it out because it was taking so long t o finish the job. The software download function used to let me identify what I needed to o rder, now it just expects me to know by black magic (or another IBM website for which they provide no link.). IBMLink green screen had perfectly good P and Q (Print an Print All) comm and -- where is this in IBMLink 2K? The SIS function had directed searches -- now you are somehow expected to know that the correct strings are, for example: PERVASIVE|HIPER PIDS/568402600 LVLS/300 | R300 (That one of the four strings to search for HIPER APARs for BookManager.) Or did I miss something else? Fortunately I saved all these strings that I use. I couldn't figure out how to view a single PTF until Marcy told me. It took me quite a while to figure out that if I want to ADD products to ASAP I have to find the Add link hidden in the right-hand menu, not at the bottom near the Delete but ton. Should I open an IBMLink feedback on each of these? (I already did on 2.) I sure didn't like the answers I got for those two. Are you sure there is anyone listening?
