I've run the XTERM and EMACS clients a few years ago. It worked first time without a problem. I wish we had EMACS fully setup for z/OS. I use XEMACS on my PC which has similarities.
Jon Perryman. >________________________________ > From: Frank Swarbrick <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2013 3:02 PM >Subject: Re: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers > > >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 <[email protected]> >>To: [email protected] >>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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
