Re: No 5250-based applications

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually my 5250 users have complained for years about field exit, keyboard
locking, no mouse, and numeric fields for entry. They think it is a "stupid,
old
system" that wont accept either 020101 or 02/01/01 or 02/01/2001 or
2/1/01 or 2/1/1 or 2/1/2001 in a date field. They look at me and say,
"can't the 400 do this?" I've been trying to make all entry fields alpha,
and
do the editing for numbers or dates in the code. I'm just completing my
first "data entry" cgi app, and so far the users like it. This is search,
select,
and order entry, with a user doing perhaps a hundred or more a day. It
took several screens in 5250, and several in html. Was able to give them
some new functions. To make sure screens always come from the server
and not from cache, there is a timestamp in the url, making every url
unique.
Cache-no did not always work (ie5.1) I can get more data on the screen
in html, and if the data length is too long, it wraps easily.
For the VB comments, since I'm using a good tool (WebSmart), this is
quick development. No client but a standard browser. The in-house users
have asked if I can put their apps up the same way!
Web printing is a problem (sort of). Exploder print button does not seem to
format
page breaks well. They dislike the wait of creating .pdf, but if that is
what it
takes, they will.
jim


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