Don Leahy wrote:
Also ISPF was a very powerful tool in its day. Today the IDE's
available for many of the environments allow people to be far more
productive and give far
better value for the money.
I disagree. If the proper tools are installed, there is no reason why
developing on big iron is any less productive than the other
platforms. ISPF, as delivered by IBM, isn't very productive, but there
are add-on tools that you can acquire to fill in the gap.
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I partly agree with Don. But one other aspect needs to be considered:
big iron capacity. If a ISPF-like environment can be established on the
smaller iron, the workload reduction on the big iron MIGHT make the
difference between upgrade this year and upgrade next year. Not so much
a "cost saving" but rather a "deferral of expenditure".
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