Enhancing the HP e3000 User Interface

GUI3000—Modernizing the HP e3000 Interface
The purpose of this paper is to show how to “modernize” the user interface to your HP e3000.
As HP e3000 skills unfortunately become scarcer, and the use of Windows PCs extends to an
extent that a great percentage of the population is familiar with the interface, GUI3000 attempts
to bridge the gap.
GUI3000 presents the user with the familiar “explorer” type interface from Microsoft for every
day management of files on the HP e3000. With the file explorer , you can :
• Create/copy/purge account, group, user and file properties easily.
• Use drag and drop to move or copy files from group to group or account to account.
• View, print, edit and download your files, as well as streaming and scheduling jobs.
• Run a program by double-clicking on the file
We realize that HP e3000 users do much more than just work with files, so GUI3000 contains
several more modules that allow you to:
• Replace most MPE/iX commands with windows style screens and mouse operations
• Control jobs and sessions easily without knowing #S / #J numbers
• Manage your spool queue effortlessly without knowing #O numbers, plus save them as text or
Adobe PDF format
• Find files based on content, size, access/modified/creation date, code, etc
• Sort file/job/spool listings in name, ID, size or date order with just one mouse click
• View files, spool files and jobs $STDIN or $STDLIST with one mouse click
• Highlight user specified conditions in $STDLIST files, such as IF/ENDIF pairs, or CI errors
• View and extract information in a variety of formats quickly and easily from Image databases
without ODBC or programming
• Graphically view disk, file and Image dataset sizes
• Automatically monitor for outstanding replies and pop-up a screen to allow you to reply to
them.
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