There is a new ISPF app that runs on zosmf. It's not perfect, but then, it's not that bad either... I'd say it's better than the old Windows GUI that ISPF provided.
Irregardless, when I have work to be done, I use TN3270 (Vista, for the record). sas On Sat, Jul 8, 2023 at 11:23 AM Joel C. Ewing <jce.ebe...@cox.net> wrote: > ... > > I remember there used to be an ISPF client that ran on PCs that made it > possible to pretend ISPF was a PC app, but it was cumbersome, still > required the companion TSO/ISPF session, still was limited by 3270 > design, and hangs could then occur on two platforms instead of one -- > generally more difficult to use and for minimal added benefit. One > interesting approach to bypass the 3270 architecture limitations and > allow direct use of UTF-8 would be to build an ISPF-like tool but with a > web-server user interface that would be accessed via web browsers, > rather than using a terminal interface accessed by 3270 emulators. That > way you at least don't have to design a new communication protocol to > support UTF-8. It would still be a challenge to design such a tool in > a way that retained the same level of security as TSO/ISPF, where each > user is isolated from other users in their own address space and RACF > environment, > > JC Ewing > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
