Re: GUI-400

Many people are discovering that green screens are very productive in some 
instances.

Computerworld Nov 2, 1998:  'ERP user interfaces drive workers nuts'.  average 
order 
processing time balloned from 20 seconds to 90 seconds.  navigate through six 
R/3 
screens to enter all the required data.  personnel managers often go to the old 
mainframe application to get the data they need.  forces users into 
productivity 
sapping screen clicking and window thrashing that requires them to constantly 
switch 
from keyboard to mouse.

SSA is coming out with a green screen version of their new order entry after 
customer 
demands and the sacking of several key employees that thought they needed to 
tell the 
customers what they need instead of listening to their concerns.

Personally, I mix and match.  I often find the GUI applications much slower and 
cumbersome.  For example I can type in DLTLIB a heck of a lot faster than I can 
do it 
through Operations Navigator.  The OS/400 green screen is built so the novice 
and 
expert can both be productive and the novice can graduate into the expert at 
own speed.  
Menus versus commands, and how to find the commands.  Also, one of my pet 
peeves - 
cursor sensitive help.  In my email if I position my cursor into cc: and hit F1 
I receive:

What do you want to do?

Save this document or message? 
Send this mail message to someone? 
Work with meetings, tasks, and calendar entries? 
Work with special types of Notes messages? 
Add text and pictures? 
Copy, move, or delete text and pictures?
Change the display of text and paragraphs? 
Create a hotspot to perform an action? 
Check for spelling errors? 
View another document at the same time as the current document? 
Exit without saving this document? 
Find out why I can't...? 

If I run the command SNDDST, position to receipient type and hit F1 I receive 
help pertinent to that field.







ukrishna%WHMCGEE@orioncapital.com on 11/03/98 03:32:55 PM
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Subject:        GUI-400


Hi everybody,

Thanks to everyone who pitches in on this forum. This has been my newest
form of upgrading myself. The place I work for is in the process of
converting all the green screens on our AS/400 to Windows using GUI-400
from Seagull. I attended the course and am of the opinion that its a very
tedious process and results in only a cosmetic face lift to an application.
Does anybody think otherwise? Are their any other tools that can achieve
more than re-painting the green screen? Also, personally, the green screen
is not so bad and I could live with if I were a user. Any thoughts?

TIA.


Unni


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