The concept of RDz is good. Give newbies an IDE which they're used to.
Unfortunately for seasoned mainframer's it just doesn't cut it. It's too
slow and click this, right click that etc is just stupid when compared
to a command line. It's the same concept as a *nix admin prefering the
shell to using a GUI. They get so much more value add from using a shell
to a GUI. Editors win every time. Check out www.slickedit.com for your
COBOL/HLASM to see what a mature editor can do. Compuware have licensed
it for their productivity suite. RDz does not come close.
On 28/06/2012 8:44 PM, McKown, John wrote:
Many thanks for that review. I tend to take the "reports on productivity" from
"experts" with varying amounts of salt, depending on my experience with the reviewer.
Some reviewers are given as much salt as anchovies.
My personal desire would be something akin to ISPF available from a z/OS UNIX shell (like
from telnet or putty, not TSO). I don't know how ISPF is architected. That is, how
dependant it is on TSO and 3270. I'd expect very dependant. But I would love it if it
could use a "curses" or X terminal interface, and maybe the TSO dependant parts
would work properly in an IKJTSOEV environment. However, I doubt that IBM will ever do
this because they seem to be pushing RDz as the wave of the future. They may be correct
in that. I have used the basic Eclipse on Linux/Intel and it is a nice IDE. For Java, I
prefer Netbeans. Probably because I learned it before Eclipse existed. And for simple
editing, I prefer vim or gvim. But I've also use kate, which is nice for multi-window
editing.
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