Re: ASNA VRPG for .net or Websmart or RPGsp or something else?

Sounds good.

Seems like a lot of work to get it on the web to "look
good" and function the same where it will be slower
response time, though.  :)

Good luck.  I know Joe's tool would be a pretty good match
for what you're looking for.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 14:38:42 -0500 
 Mary Koetting <Mary_Koetting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My boss wants it to look as good as a web page but
> function like the green
> screens for the data entry work. We have around 12-15
> full time data entry
> techs so the function keys are really necessary...he (the
> boss) also wants
> to cut down on the interactive workload to save on cost. 
> 
> We will certainly look at the tools you suggested...after
> all you got us on
> the web in the first place! What we're redoing now is the
> in-house software.
> Thanks!      
> 
> Mary Koetting
> Senior Programmer Analyst
> Missouri Consolidated Health Care
> 573-526-2856
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Stone [mailto:brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 2:08 PM
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] ASNA VRPG for .net or Websmart or
> RPGsp or something
> else?
> 
> Just curious... seems like you (or your users) are on the
> fence... do they want web apps, or green screen apps on
> the
> web (your mention of using function keys to go to screens
> is why I mention this).
> 
> It is possible to use function keys on the web, but why
> would you?  If this is a heads down data entry app, maybe
> you'd be best sticking with green screen?
> 
> If you want to create some nice web apps (with or without
> function keys, what I would suggest) there are some good
> tools out.  I have my eRPG SDK (www.erpgsdk.com) and
> there
> are other tools out there like CGIDEV2 and I know Joe
> Pluta
> also has some utilities that convert programs/DDS/etc to
> JSPs.
> 
> For emailing my MAILTOOL utility works nice... I use both
> it and the eRPG SDK heavily on my BVSTools.com website.
> 
> For scanning forms, if you store them in the IFS, it
> should
> be fairly painless to display them in a web page.
> 
> Apps on the web do run batch, so that would help with
> your
> interactive workload.
> 
> Brad
> www.bvstools.com
> 
> On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 11:30:21 -0500 
>  Mary Koetting <Mary_Koetting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > We're a small shop (5 RPG/COBOL programmers) with an I5
> > Iseries (Apache
> > server) and we're researching a new tool to write web
> > applications and would
> > appreciate any input you have on the subject...we have
> > some visual RPG
> > experience and have a couple of web applications using
> > Brad Stone's eRPG. 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > There will be forms entry, maintenance, automatic
> > emailing, real time
> > updating with about 100 users and it would use at least
> > 30 files...would
> > also love to have something in place that would capture
> > the form as a
> > scanned object and pass it to an Oracle database....we
> > spend a lot of effort
> > feeding forms to a scanner. Don't know if this is even
> > possible but would
> > save a lot of work.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > We want to be able to use function keys to move from
> one
> > screen to another. 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > We would like to get cut down on our interactive
> workload
> > and also need to
> > keep track of who does what...we have a lot of PHI
> > information (HIPAA) so we
> > have to know when, how and who changed the information.
> > I've seen a little
> > of the Nexus Portal and I'd like to know if anyone has
> > experience with it
> > also.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > We greatly appreciate any and all guidance...thanks!
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Mary Koetting
> > 
> > Senior Programmer Analyst
> > 
> > Missouri Consolidated Health Care
> > 
> > 573-526-2856
> > 
> >  
> > 
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