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Perhaps you are remembering the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) GUI? https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/txseries/8.2?topic=SSAL2T_8.2.0/com.ibm.cics.tx.doc/t_s

Perhaps you are remembering the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) GUI? https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/txseries/8.2?topic=SSAL2T_8.2.0/com.ibm.cics.tx.doc/t_smit_usg.html https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/txseries/8.2?topic=SSAL2T_8.2.0/...

mech422 4y ago
I used to get a kick out of how the lil 'running man' in SMIT would fall over if a command failed :-P More sense of humour then I gave IBM credit for :-D
- pram 4y ago
  IBM GUIs were always pretty interesting. The cursor in early ThinkPad BIOS was a bird that flapped its wings.
- justsomehnguy 4y ago
  > the lil 'running man' in SMIT would fall over if a command failed To anyone wondering: https://youtu.be/YMWSD69BWqI?t=114 https://youtu.be/YMWSD69BWqI?t=114
  - mech422 4y ago
    Heh - I can't believe someone actually filmed it :-) Thanks!
classichasclass 4y ago
Smit happens(tm) Though I always preferred it from the command line (appropriately, the binary is named smitty: see, IBM does have a sense of humour).
a-dub 4y ago
yeah it was actually a TUI. the screenshot looks right but the name "smit" doesn't sound familiar. i want to say it had a three letter name (this was circa 1996). motif... lol