RE: Package scale - input options

Mark,

GSE Counting scale (table top) connected to a pit scale. There is no
Ethernet jack on ours.
Compsee Turbo Wedge (scale/Scanner/Ethernet terminal keyboard) all connected
to this. I use just an Ethernet(dummy) terminal with the old style 5250
keyboard. I don't think attaching a PC keyboard would be any different.
Might need a different keyboard wedge for that connection.

Our Scale vendor is Ohio Scale. They provided the Scale/Wedge and performed
the programming necessary to send the data via the wedge to the Terminal.

Our scales were already connected to a ticket printer where all of this
information printed. If it was being sent to the printer then it could be
sent somewhere else during the print process.





-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of M. Lazarus
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 10:30 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Package scale - input options

Jeff,

- What vendor?
- Which brand of scale?
- Is there special software that runs on the PC or is the hardware wedge
enough?
- Did the vendor supply the entire package or is the keyboard wedge the
trick to making this work with any scale?
- What was the cost to implement?


-mark


At 6/28/2012 07:23 AM, you wrote:

We have a scale/Scanner/Ethernet terminal connected via a keyboard wedge.

I

had our scale vendor program the scale print key to send information such
as

Gross weight
Tare weight
Net weight
Piece count
Total count

This includes a carriage return/field exit after each variable.

I have an input screen/program that accepts this data on the system I.
The user scans a barcode (shop order/operation) weighs a drum of parts
presses the print key the scale information is uploaded to the screen.
I then use all of this information to perform inventory transactions on the

system.

Jeff Elam


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of franz400
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 6:52 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Package scale - input options

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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