RE: Inexpensive and easy-to-use AS/400 Faxing

Roger,

you must have some real knuckledraggers for users dude!  Last time I
looked at Quadrant it was the best thing out there and not that hard for
users to learn....who teaches your users how to signon and wander through
your current menu structures, or do the pgms run themselves??  :)

Don in DC

On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Roger Boucher wrote:

> Thank you for your reply.  We looked at Quadrant and it appeared on
> first glance to be very flexible and comprehensive... and therefore too
> confusing for the users to use without babysitting (at this point I
> should state that our users are not very knowledge-intensive).  Due to
> severe headcount constraints in MIS we are looking for something that we
> can practically drop in and forget.  We want something EXTREMELY basic.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Townsend [mailto:townsend@patownsend.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 2:46 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Inexpensive and easy-to-use AS/400 Faxing
> 
> 
> 
> We've used Quadrant for this kind of task. And I've heard good things
> from others. No relationship between them and us...
> 
> Patrick
> -- 
> IBM AS/400 communications, FTP automation, and network security
> software and consulting services.
> 
> http://www.patownsend.com
> 
> Roger Boucher wrote:
> > 
> > Our users already have faxing capabilities from their desktop using
> > FaxSys and our network guys are looking at installing a DID faxing
> > server, but neither of these at this time appears to be able to
> readily
> > help us with our AS/400 faxing needs.  Our primary need is to fax
> > contract type documents created on the AS/400 (JDEdwards) and run
> > through OPTIO where they are reformatted to look pretty and converted
> to
> > ASCII.  We currently print these out and manually fax them.  Can
> anyone
> > help me locate (if one exists) a cheap, easy-to-use faxing solution
> for
> > the AS/400 that is simple enough that MIS can install it and then give
> > it to the users with little babysitting?  Any suggestions would be
> > greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > Roger Boucher
> > Standard Pacific Corp.
> > rboucher@stanpac.com
> > 714-668-4326
> > 
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