The ISPF WSA has worked well for me, except that the GUI doesn't support block or multi-line copies. As for local SPF, the only decent one that I saw was Tritus SPF, and it's no longer available. If you can get the relevant bugs fixed then The Hessling Editor would be a good alternative, although it might be a culture shock if you've only used ISPF. I've always wanted an editor that combined the best features of ISPF/EDIT and XEDIT.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Steve Thompson <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2018 11:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: z/OS "interactive computing" - AKA TSO/ISPF or UNIX shell Where I am working, we use TSO/ISPF. We are working toward ISPW from Compuware and an associated product. I'd be tickled if I could get a client/server thing going so I could do editing on W10 and then upload and compile/assemble. Of course I would expect/want an ISPF emulation product in that case because I am very much tied to excluding lines, columnar oriented editing, etc. which the IDEs currently being used (so far as I know today) are oblivious to. If WYLBUR/AT would work, I'd be tickled pink, but it had a Y2K problem with Windows!! And Addlerspare and Associates no longer support it (I don't even know if they are in biz any more). Regards, Steve Thompson On 03/15/2018 09:25 AM, John McKown wrote: > As many may know, where I work now is really behind the times. So I thought > that I'd ask here about what is the current methodology for program > development. What I'm really getting at is whether people continue to use > TSO ISPF or have most shops gone to using the Eclipse based "IBM Explorer > for z/OS" (or is it "Rational Developer"? - what about the irrational > developers, what do they use? :-}) > > Personally, I don't like TSO very much. I like ISPF fairly well. I wish > that ISPF would could be run from a z/OS UNIX shell (the way TSO ISPF runs > under a "TSO shell"). > > Any good YouTube videos that I could watch? Of course, the problem with > that is that I'm not allowed to "waste bandwidth" watching videos here at > work, so I end up watching them at home (when I do) instead of "Father > Brown" episodes. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
