Re: Wireless handheld devices used for Inventory transactions

We at Eaton Electrical in Fayetteville, NC use the Intermec Trakker 2425
handheld scanners to scan cards and create inventory transactions. The
screen is about the same size as the one you are speaking of and we have
special programs and screens that only use the available number of rows
and columns. We then feed the transactions directly to the PMC
application via our own set of processing programs. By using the PMC
application, you get real time transaction processing without the batch
closing and running of the posting process. Everything seems to work
pretty smoothly. Just make sure you don't use too many characters on the
screen as the windowing left and right with the arrow keys on the
handheld is quite cumbersome.


Wayne R. Baldwin
Lead Analyst - IT Applications
Eaton Electrical Inc.
2900 Doc Bennett Road
Fayetteville, NC 28306
Tel: (910) 677 - 5280
Adnet: 220 - 2280
Fax: (910) 677 - 5263
Mailto:WayneRBaldwin@xxxxxxxxx
www.EatonElectrical.com 


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We are beginning to use wireless handheld devices (Symbol brand) for
data
collection.
The screens are 16 rows by 20 characters wide. It doesn't allow the full
green screen
to be displayed in Inventory transactions - (option 1 on menu AMIM30).

We are considering writing a program to create an offline file for using
these devices.

Is anyone else using these or similar devices? And if so, how are you
handling the screen
size for Mapics applications?

Thanks,
Brenda Trisko
iSeries Systems Programmer/Analyst
Douglas Machine Inc.
Alexandria, MN 56308

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