Does anyone actually run X-Windows on z/OS? Seems to me GUI things such as the Explorer tools, the Debug Tool (and other Productivity Tools) GUI, etc., and even RDz could be well served by being X-Windows client applications. But what do I know...
>________________________________ > From: Jon Perryman <jperr...@pacbell.net> >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2013 7:57 PM >Subject: Re: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers > > >Unix and Windows have a lot of similarities. User interfaces are often >similar. Most users will continue using those if possible. > > >z/OS has TSO, CICS and IMS. We have webservers. We can run X-window clients. >We can run Emacs. The ability exists. The problem is that the desire is not >there and it's not cheap. > > >People are creatures of habit and most don't like change. In my early days, I >worked for a company that couldn't throw money away fast enough so we could >buy anything we wanted (equipment would show up and they would tell me to make >it do something useful). We literally had to remove card punches forcing them >to use the terminals. Even with that, they still insisted on using full screen >librarian which was a split screen with source displayed at the top and you >entered librarian change statements at the bottom. Basically the same as when >we used the card punches. I convinced many to use the VM editor but even by >the time I left, there was still a few using that program. > >Jon Perryman. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
