Hello! Sadly Jeff, I am prepared to admit to nothing. However seeing the webpage brought about an interesting thing. About the time it surfaced I participated in a round of discussions concerning IBM's attempts to write software for both sides via a GUI. I believe it was called Value Age, or something of a sort, its way before Eclipse.
Anyway the page more or less confirmed it when it showed that the only downloads for it were for OS/2 and Windows 95, which certainly agreed with the resulting discussions. Incidentally I did see a series of other related downloads, some of them were in fact tagged as coming from this august gathering. Just for fun I am tempted to assemble a virtual machine containing either OS/2 or Win95 and see what does happen and why. --- Gregg C Levine [email protected] "This signature is not the same one. Move along! Move along!" > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Jeff Gribbin > Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 7:54 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [IBMVM] The old VM/ESA CMS GUI - Does it still live? > > Greetings folks, > Some recent discussion brought to mind the old CMS GUI Facility that shipped > with VM/ESA 2.1 - and now I'm in a position where I might for the first time > actually be able to configure a z/VM system to allow me to play with the > beast, I got to wondering if it even still exists. > > The best I've been able to find in the way of IBM documentation is: > > http://www.vm.ibm.com/gui/ > > I found an interesting reference to a 2004 z/VM GUI project - > > http://web2.clarkson.edu/projects/cosi/zTeam/zvmgui/ > > but alas that seems to have since sunk without trace. > > So ... a few questions ... > > Anybody using it? > Anybody prepared to admit they're using it? > Anybody know if it's still maintained in any current form? > > This is purely a personal learning exercise triggered by the aforementioned > conversation and my recent exposure to young sysprogs (< 25 years old) who > tend to love what CP and CMS can do but fall about laughing whenever the > user interface is discussed. All comments gratefully received. > > Regards > Jeff
