Reggie,
The SMAT GUI under Platform 5 (and 3.8.1) is slower due to the way it pulls the information down to the client. For a work around, you can run the old version of SMAT via X-windows (hcismat); see the recent “RTIF SMAT is EBCDIC now in 5.3” posting in this forum for additional details.
Also, as for the items in the unsupported directory, these are essentially the old GUI versions of these tools, that you could run if desired, but they are essentially ‘unsupported’ under the newer release and should be treated as such.
Jim Cobane
Henry Ford Health
