In
<caajsdjh3gvsdewm25tn8qiwudxk+dxjbfbu3jxatpchskzn...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 11/20/2014
   at 07:23 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> said:

>Why? Because somebody thought that using ISPF would make it "better".

An *option* to use ISPF *does* make it better. However valuable the
ISPF panels may be, they don't eliminate the occasional need to
automate things.

>IBM wants z/OS to be "friendly".

They've turned down a lot of requirements that would have made it
friendlier. IBM wants things that will improve their cash flow,
possibly at the expense of long term profit.
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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