Re: Starting RDi from a green screen

Jack is an optimist in the most forward-thinking way 😊

But my observations in the wild tend to agree with Steve.

I'm afraid the Green screen will have a place for quite a while yet for many tasks.

FWIW - I have used the iSphere stuff and it's a nice way to use PDM to launch editing from the TN5250 sessions in RDI.

But the current favorite is VS Code.

Regards
Richard Schoen

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message: 4
date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 07:51:53 -0500
from: Steve M via WDSCI-L <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Starting RDi from a green screen

Jack,

I would love to agree with you, but sorry, I just can't. As much as many of us embrace RDi, and even VS Code, I have worked with enough programmers over the past few years who are just not going to abandon green screen and SEU. They write in Free, their entire screen is lit up bright green and you could get a tan from the thing, but that's their comfort zone and they won't leave it. Typically, these are also the most uninformed, least of knowledge, of PC operating systems (whichever one you choose) and struggle with tasks in those environments. Email, Teams/Chat, Word, Excel, and a browser is about all they know, or even want to know.

Just my opinion/observations.

Steve M.


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Cc: Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Starting RDi from a green screen

On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 7:17?PM David Gibbs via WDSCI-L < wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Oct 23, 2023, at 8:13?PM, Jack Woehr
<jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

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You might actually be able to do so :)

I don?t think that would work.

Well, I wouldn't really want it to :)

Between Merlin, VSCode, and Db2 for i Services, the green screen will soon just be for when one has to fix something in the console after a bad IPL when TCP/IP doesn't come up.