Re: Field+ and Field Exit keys- Hot wo make them repeat -- MIDRANGE-L

James

up until a few months ago I would have blindly agreed with you. I won't argue the merits of various emulators as I am pretty hard pushed to see the need for a C/A license for most end users when a decent telnet client is all they need, but I have come round to kinda liking Ops Oavigator.

The V5R2 release I am using actually does what it does pretty nicely, has some useful functions, is as stable these days as anything else I use on Windows, and does things you just can't do on a green screen. The database navigator stuff, the network configuration utilities and the disk management processes are all highly usable. I've done a lot of work with it testing IASP configurations and I'm pushed to see how it would have been better on a green screen. Some of the management central functions and tasks are also pretty handy. Its well worth taking the time to check out all the functions: it may surprise you.

For all the screen screen purists out there, it does annoy me that IBM provides functions in the GUI without also providing a command, but that doesn't mean the GUI doesn't have its place.

Regards
Evan Harris

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Oh, and I stand corrected on the "overpriced" part where CA and Navigator
are concerned. From where I sit, though, they still look like bloatware
that (in the case of the latter) an awful lot of people only use because
they have no other choice.

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