RE: GUI-400

You've found what we've found, and I've heard from many.  There's just
no substitute for the field exit key... :)

Bradley V. Stone
Taylor Corporation - OASIS Programmer/Analyst   
bvstone@taylorcorp.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Berendt [SMTP:rob@dekko.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 2:58 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      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
> Please respond to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com@Internet
> To:   midrange-l-digest@midrange.com@Internet
> cc:    
> 
> 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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