RE: as400 to WEB order entry

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From my experience a seperate program would work the best.  The screen
scrapers tend to hog a lot more cPU than necessary.  A simply CGI program to
collect the data and do verification can be much more streamlined.  The CPU
used by screen scrapers adds up exponentially for every user you have using
the app.

We have an internal EDI system that we use for this.  the Web program
collects the data and puts it into our internal EDI system.  Then from there
it's billed.  So, we only really have one billing program that reads these
EDI files and bills the order, putting the bulk of the processing into one
application, making Oe programs simple data collection programs.

check out http://www.bvstools.com/erpg.html for a cool book on the subject.
;)

Brad


> -----Original Message-----
> From: JGracetri@aol.com [mailto:JGracetri@aol.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 8:12 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: as400 to WEB order entry
> 
> 
> We are going to put order entry on the web. We have used a 
> product to make 
> our green screens GUI. To do this we use our orginal screen 
> as the source for 
> the GUI screen. So when a screen changes we have to go thru 
> the re-gen 
> process again.
> 
> Our web users will be our sales force and a few selected customers.  
> 
> In house order entry takes many steps and is not real simple.
> 
> The debate is now raging with 6 weeks to go. 
> 
> One side says hammer down(as is), the other wants to 
> streamline order entry 
> with a seperate program. With just Cust# Item# QTY on the screen.
> 
> I can go either way.
> 
> I would be interested in someone else's experience or if you 
> know a case 
> study i can look at.
> 
> thank you jeff g
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