Re: HP Stimulus Package

John,

HATS is nice for quick-and-dirty conversions, but if you have the
time, rewriting your RPG to separate the view layer from the model and
controller, you can have absolute control of your view layer (whether
you use Java, PHP, .NET, whatever...). With HATS, you take what you
get, with some customization (not bad, but nothing compared to what
you can do yourself). Performance is also a little better.

We like to wow our users with demos of apps that are a combination of
5250 GUI. Make a change in the GUI, refresh the 5250 screen and it
shows the new data. Make a change on the 5250 screen and see it in
the GUI. Same database, same business logic. Different views.

Mike E.

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:16 PM, McKown, John
<John.Mckown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Subject: RE: HP Stimulus Package

John,

IBM offers the HATS product to provide this functionality.
HATS can be
used to convert a 5250 application into a web interface (or web
service). I suspect it's the same product for z now as well...

Eric DeLong

Then why be worried about "converting" from 5250 by rewriting to PHP or
Java or ...? "I'm so confused!" <Vinnie Babarino - Welcome Back, Kotter>

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