RE: No 5250-based applications

Jim,

I have those same users!!! :)

I've NEVER heard a single one ask me to convert a GUI screen to 5250, but
I've heard plenty of them ask if we can take their application off the
"stupid old system". Not that I agree with their assessment of my beloved
400, but that's the way it is.

Having said that, I also haven't heard a single one ask me to replace their
GUI with a browser.


John Taylor
Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Jim Franz
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 4:44 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: No 5250-based applications
>
>
> 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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