On 1/19/09 11:32 AM, "Jack Woehr" <[email protected]> wrote: > David Boyes wrote: >> >> I really like what you've >> done with PigIron, but I can't run it on CMS because we don't have a >> supported Java. >> > I can see the fun in that, but is there really a use case? Nobody > (methinks) is sitting in front of a real 3270 using CMS anymore.
Yes, there is. There are a lot of things where Linux or other systems don't have effective API access to CMS or CP functions yet, but CMS (and REXX) does. There are a lot of times when I want to include a system management function in some automation tools I'm building, and I don't want to have to dual or triple path the code to handle all the possible directory and security managers out there. If I could call SMAPI from the CMS command line, all those possible cases collapse to ONE case (interact with SMAPI to do the function I want) and it becomes the security and directory manager developers problem to deliver what SMAPI asks for. I probably will expose those system management functions via some other method, but it's a lot easier to call them from CMS and it's asking less of IBM to create a command line client that I can call from rexec than to architect a full set of APIs. > There's always a shell window somewhere that can use ObjectRexx > to drive PigIron, n'est-ce pas? Not as part of fully automated systems, there's not. At least not until we get a better way to do remote command execution from CMS to other system than rexec. >> Neat. Planning an Android/iPhone version? That would be really cool. GWT >> already has support in the widgets for adjusting screen sizes, so it would >> be a matter of enabling the support. >> > Huh. I'll keep that in mind as I work on the app. I'm not terribly > tiny-mobile-device aware myself. Maybe I should get one of these > things and learn how to use it so I don't become a fuddy-duddy :) Be forewarned: they're addictive. I have a very nice OfficeVision interface going for the iPhone. 8-) -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
