Over the years the mainframe has been modernized to keep up with all the latest technologies. I have used ISPF Dialog tools to automate many manual tasks (over the last 30 years) where manual intervention has be problematic.

Example - User has put in the wrong information which has not been validated, eg: typo's, incorrect format of the data in dataset, data positioned incorrectly in dataset, numeric fields which have characters etc. 

My solutions have fairly simple, if a users has to put the relevant information by using a Panel they can't get it wrong. I have written automated tasks in COBOL, PL/1, CLIST and REXX, they all have worked out well by reducing human errors to zero and cutting out reruns of production processes which have saved days of unnecessary CPU usage.

Is this deemed the old way of automating because Mainframer's today would probably use z/OSMF or Zowie cli to achieve something similar if possible?  

Over the years the mainframe has been modernized to keep up with all the latest technologies. I have used ISPF Dialog tools to automate many manual tasks (over the last 30 years) where manual intervention has be problematic.

Example - User has put in the wrong information which has not been validated, eg: typo's, incorrect format of the data in dataset, data positioned incorrectly in dataset, numeric fields which have characters etc. 

My solutions have fairly simple, if a users has to put the relevant information by using a Panel they can't get it wrong. I have written automated tasks in COBOL, PL/1, CLIST and REXX, they all have worked out well by reducing human errors to zero and cutting out reruns of production processes which have saved days of unnecessary CPU usage.

Is this deemed the old way of automating because Mainframer's today would probably use z/OSMF or Zowie cli to achieve something similar if possible?