Re: Bar Coding, Wand Readers,Scanners, 348X terminals

[Patrick Townsend <townsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pat,

Since you asked! :

In the *really* bad old days you used a terminal (like a 5250, etc).
with a special receptacle in the keyboard cable to send data to a 5250
application on the AS/400, which then processed it or wrote to
transaction file. It worked but was kludgy. If any of the data got
misaligned or bad data got in the data stream the 5250 application would
fail. There were also some PC-based solutions that buffered the devices
before sending the data to the AS/400 using Client Access. But the PCs
were hard to manage from the data center. If there were errors on the PC
they were not visible to the AS/400.

We created our Alliance SerialConnect product to work with just this
type of device. It uses a hardware device that supports up to 4 serial
devices, and communicates with the AS/400 over an Ethernet LAN using
TCP/IP. The configuration is done from the AS/400 side, errors are
reported to the AS/400 operator, and the whole thing is managed from the
AS/400. More information at: http://www.patownsend.com

Patrick
-- 
IBM AS/400 communications, FTP automation, and network security
software and consulting services.

http://www.patownsend.com

Pat Barber wrote:
> 
> Since good old bar coding has risen it's ugly head, I may as well
> ask the eternal question.. What's up with attaching a wand reader
> or scanner to a 348X type terminal for data collection.. I know
> this was done years back, but I was wondering if somthing newer
> had come up.... As I recall, it was pretty clunky to attach to a
> regular terminal but it could be done... Who are the current hot vendors
> on this subject ?????? What has to be done from the software side ???
> 
>         Curious: but it has come up in a customer meeting and I
>         had to act dumb(not very hard in my case).
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