It is no doubt futile to try to reign in this thread, but many of the responses have been very helpful to me. Thanks.
For me, key points are: 1) OMVS works in a pinch, but I'm not the only one that finds it painful. OEDIT or OBROWSE commands get you back into an ISPF dialog so that you can flip around with other dialogs / splits, etc. 2) ISPF can't handle "pseudo full duplex" 3270 sessions (like VM/CMS, MVS/Console, etc.), so it is not obvious that a really nice OMVS replacement could be written as an ISPF dialog. 3) ISHELL can be used not only as a filesystem navigator, but also to enter shell commands. It is an ISPF dialog, so doesn't suffer in the same ways as OMVS. 4) If you want a real Unix shell, your best bet is to use a (non-3270) Telnet or SSH shell. (Putty on Windows or "ssh" on Linux are good choices) Thanks, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies LLC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
