There is also ISPF/PC ... for those who want to work 'offline'
/db
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Broderick
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: What do mainframe people use?
Hi Roger,
I see all the answers and think I do not need to answer BUt. ISPF is the
king. I have used MultiEdit and my favorite is ULTRA Edit. But again ISPF is
king. Obvious when you are editing you need to have the ability to move in and
out of MF datasets. This is available only through ISPF. BUT there are several
packages (Hummingbird, Attachmate, etc) hat extent the comm facilities to add
some 'nice to use' features. There is a extension to ISPF that is an upgrade
for ISPF that adds MANY new features to ISPF. The usability is really nice. Now
talking of the king, there is a king of kings, at least from a few years ago
and this is the ISPF at DTC. Soe consultant took it upon himself to upgrade
ISPF and re-programmed the old GREEN SCREEN development package with some very
nice features.
Going back to UltraEdit, It is a very nice tool for interfacing with UNIX and
Windows platforms and doing FTP file editiing. It has a column mode (similar to
MF and my favorite is the closing paren/bracket identifier. I have sent EMAILs
to the UltraEdit development staff to implement all the X ALL features of ISPF.
(Another nice feature of ISPF)
bobbee
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> Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:46:37 -0600
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: What do mainframe people use?
> To: [email protected]
>
> All,
>
> What do mainframe people use?
>
> Ok, its a little open-ended question but I've had some interesting emails
in the last couple of months.
>
> So, when you are editing code (i.e. COBOL, C, REXX, etc.) do you edit it on
the mainframe or your PC then ftp it to the mainframe?
>
> Where do you edit things like JCL or sysin members? Mainframe or PC?
>
> For those people develop or support mainframe applications, how much of the
work is done on the mainframe? i.e. 50%, 60%, 70% ... or 100%
>
> Are there people who exclusively use the mainframe to do all of their work?
>
> Inquiring minds want to know.
>
>
> Regards,
> Roger Lacroix
>
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