[Info-vax] OpenVMS Development Annoyances

[Richard Maher]

On 22/04/2019 5:56 am, seasoned_geek wrote:
> 
> No. People who didn't think listened to the marketing team who
> thought even less. Before my book on ACMS there was exactly one
> commercially available how-to ACMS book. You know what it showed? How
> to create a CICS transaction screen application on VMS using ACMS. It
> completely ignored roughly 80% of ACMS because the marketing team was
> trying to sell that tragedy called DECForms.
> 

Soooo sad but so true.

> So, they pulled some strings, moved some resources and out pooped
> DECScheduler.
> 
> DECForms thankfully went off into oblivion. Got itself banned at
> every shop I ever worked at.
> 

Why did it have to be? Just when HTML and JS was being born. FMS 
could've been enhanced and leave TDMS for ACMS.