RE: Thats all folks!

(2) & (1) DDS already has this stuff - menu bars, dropdown lists,
scrollbars, are all keywords in DDS. On a green screen they work in
character mode, in a graphical emulator you get the graphical stuff. It's
an enhanced 5250 for graphical stuff.

There IS a gui designer for DDS display files - CODE Designer.

At 01:51 PM 12/18/2002 -0500, you wrote:

At 03:16 PM 12/17/2002 -0600, you wrote:

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What would I do, if I could make the decisions for the iSeries division?

(1) Create a new way of communicating with terminals, instead of the
     5250 data stream, that allows for graphical terminals.

(2) Make it just as easy to develop graphical applications on the
     iSeries as it is to develop green-screen.    Incorporate graphical
     controls into DDS, so existing software can immediately look
     graphical without changing the RPG/COBOL code.

(3) Lose the reliance of Windows for Ops Nav, etc.   Instead, use the
     graphical data stream.   Make a terminal emulator for Windows,
     of course, but also make it availble for Linux/BSD/MacOS, etc.
     Keep the PC side as simple as possible, so that a terminal can
     be used as a complete replacement.

The idea is, you write the software for the iSeries.  You deploy it
to the iSeries.  The only platform required to use it is the iSeries.

Software is very simple to write, because that's what business people
want when they're developing software.  They're not computer geeks like
Unix people, they're businessmen.  They want something easy that will
be modern and stable.

Don't use a web browser as a terminal.  They're unstable.  Every browser
displays things differently.  They are much more complicated to develop
software for than a green-screen.  They're designed for reading hyper text
documentation, not running an application in.   It has been proven time
and time again that client/server is expensive to maintain... this is the
main reason why the TCO of the iSeries is lower.   Web is a client/server
software!

Get the idea?  Keep the paradigms that have always made the iSeries
strong, but UPDATE THEM TO MODERN TIMES.