Don Leahy, Vice-President
Leacom Consulting Inc.

"I have been using SimpList for over a year now and I feel it has boosted my personal productivity by at least 25%.

In my mind, it has destroyed the myth that a GUI interface is essential to improving programmer productivity. Before acquiring SimpList, I looked at another product (not from Mackinney) that put an attractive GUI face on the traditional IBM mainframe screens. At first glance it looked good, but upon further investigation I realized that while there were some cosmetic improvements, you still had to do things in the same old way.

IBM's ISPF interface has changed very little over the years. In the interest of maintaining compatibility with previous versions, IBM has perpetuated some of the design flaws associated with the earliest release of the product. SimpList goes a long way towards addressing ISPF's shortcomings. It allows the programmer to organize his work in a logical manner, freeing him from the many restrictions imposed by ISPF.

Today's more complex applications require the programmer to manipulate many more objects (data sets, DB2 tables, etc. ) than ever before. SimpList allows you to manage that complexity with a minimal amount of effort.

SimpList is easy to install and has no adverse impact on overall systems performance. In fact, you can expect performance to improve because people are working more efficiently and spending much less time searching for things in the system catalog.

SimpList makes mainframe programming much easier to learn. Its design concept, where you select an object and then decide what to do with it, is similar to that used by Windows applications, which younger IT workers have grown up using. You no longer have to spend time learning how to navigate from one screen to another."

Don Leahy, Vice-President
Leacom Consulting Inc.