On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 12:30 AM, Edward Gould <edgould1...@comcast.net> wrote:
> <snip> > > > Good question. One that has been asked many times. I have the impression > IBM is being mysterious here. We are pretty sure that there is no > development going on for current TSO and IBM is tight lipped on any > possible successor (if any). > About 25 years ago an IBMer at Guide we were talking at a restaurant and > with a few drinks I got out of him that IBM has basically lost track of the > innards of TSO and really have no idea on how to fix it. He hinted that > there maybe a replacement on the horizon but wouldn’t say much more than > that. I did not have the expense account that would buy unlimited booze and > I thought it would certainly happen soon. I was wrong. Not a peep from IBM > of course I stopped going all the often to SHARE and with the personnel > trimming at IBM, I would venture a guess that it is low on IBM’s list of > thing to do. > > Ed > > If the ISPF people would port their code to be usable from an UNIX shell prompt, I'd have _no_ use for TSO again. What I vaguely envision is having ISPF use "curses" for a character user interface. The second phase would be to extend ISPF to use X in addition to "curses". ISPF could then be the Qt or GTK+ of z/OS UNIX. -- Veni, Vidi, VISA: I came, I saw, I did a little shopping. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
