Re: Package scale - input options -- MIDRANGE-L

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Jim,

The question is whether there needs to be some additional software on the PC side to make this work.

-mark

At 6/28/2012 06:52 AM, you wrote:

if it acts like a barcode scanner, then that "pc app" could be a 5250
iSeries Access screen...
Have often used scanners as keyboard input.
jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 6:12 AM
Subject: RE: Package scale - input options

>> What is required to pipe data from a package scale into a 5250 screen?
>> Similar in concept to a barcode scanning gun.
>>
>> There is a (Toledo, I believe) scale with a USB connection. Is some
>> specialized software required?
>>
>> TIA for any suggestions.
>
> Sounds like it. In the first place, there is no USB port on the System i
> (unless they've changed that in the past few years), so it's not going to
> be
> a pure i solution. Unless I miss my guess (and it is a guess) you'll need
> to attach it to a device (PC?) and have a program/app on that device that
> will read the scale and then fill in a screen (or a field on a screen)
> with
> the result.
>
> Dennis Lovelady

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