z/os

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2017–2023), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with z/os, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 3 complaints

Creating a new file requires manually specifying low-level details like block size and record organization2023-06-14
Commenter finds the Unix shell reached through ISPF very difficult to use2018-07-31
Installing and shutting down z/VM and z/OS is painful, requiring manual steps without machine images2017-04-11