RE: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence -- MIDRANGE-L

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midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   7. Re: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence (Tom Jedrzejewicz)
>
>Initially, it sounded as if you don't like GUI is because of solitaire
>and web-browsing.  Both are relatively easy to eliminate, so there
>must be more to it.  Do you disagree with the assertion that a GUI
>application is more intuitive and easier to train?

I've mentioned this before but I think no one has ever commented, neither to 
agree nor contradict. I'll mention it again...

AFAIK, _most_ of us access our green-screen apps through a "GUI" app right now. 
It's called iSeries Access, in particular the emulator sessions.

AFAIK, there is no absolute reason a GUI can't look, act and feel essentially 
the same as a real terminal. (With obvious exceptions such as bringing up Task 
Manager, etc.)

Though there is no 'absolute' reason, there are practical reasons in that 
common IDEs and widgets, etc., don't help much in creating something like the 
green-screen pane in the emulator.

(AFAIK, IMO, etc.)

Tom Liotta

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