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We are not yet doing any of this, but I have been to several seminars & demos at IBM & our local AS/400 user group showing the strengths/weaknesses of alternative packages. 1. I am most impressed with Lansa for the Web http://www.lansa.com Seagull's JWalk http://www.seagull.com I saw some of IBM's native alternatives but liked the above more so I had an opportunity to use DeskMaster from http://www.seacrest.com which extends PC & internet-like features to green screen like a poor man's Lotus Notes, e-mail conferencing, forms connected to legacy aps, but while it is very useful for direct 400 users, it is not the kind of ap you are talking about ... it looks like BosaNova now offers many of the same features, turning twinax into a higher speed connection for traditional intranet functions 2. The major contenders all have examples of sites powered by AS/400 using their stuff, which look just great - I would look at the sites I consider to be the most user-friendly of the AS/400 forums & ask which are powered by what midrange dot com (linux I think) news/400 midrange computing and some of the major suppliers of AS/400 resources like IBM & System 3X warehouse 3. If you are now running some packaged application, there may already be some web-enabled version of it available, but if you only need selected application software there, then you might want to steer away ... an article in March 13 Midrange Computing Magazine talked about the features of various offerings & prices like $300,000.00 4. The kinds of questions I asked were ... How granular is security & to what extent does it depend on our AS/400 security? If we need to enhance an inquiry that is running both on our enterprise and the web, can we go one place to modify it, or do we modify the enterprise then re-jigger the web version? We can write software on green screen that is to be executed GUI and vica versa ... what combinations does your package support? We have to take our AS/400 down for backups & application re-orgs ... what happens to application on web site when AS/400 not available? 5. What interests me is AS/400 reports sent to a web site like recent shipments to our customers, and for that there is $50.00 shareware like http://www.bystools.com & the more expensive professional stuff. > We are looking into putting some of out inquiry/entry screens on our web > site and have been checking into the following products. JWALK, Tradepaq, > and jacada. Anyone have any pros/cons and/or experience for any of these? > > Angela Wawrzaszek > > Programmer/Analyst Al Macintyre ©¿© http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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