Viewpoint Systems Inc, San Mateo, California has started shipping its Viewpoint I/F Builder, designed to enable corporate developers and systems managers to create custom graphical interfaces for existing mainframe applications: it requires no work with complex Microsoft Windows code or knowledge of new programming languages, and no modification of existing applications is necessary because editing is done only at the 80286-based MS-DOS personal computer, eliminating the need to access source code and waste mainframe resources; developers are provided with default libraries and graphic templates, freeing the designer to create visually pleasing, standard interfaces that are IBM Systems Application Architecture Common User Access and Common Communications Support-compliant; it costs $17,500 and the I/F Manager run-time version is $400 per micro, with volume discounts.
