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Brad, Nice to see strong ISVs talking about new apps. But I don't know about 3K...? Hard to tell... There's some PC competition, too. I looked at Monarch, shoot, 5 or 10 years ago, and it did some of this for a few C-notes. I'm sure it's advanced since then. There are several others in this space on both the PC and 400 end, but I haven't looked at 'em lately. I looked at RJS Software about 3 years ago, and they had REAL strong offerings then... IMHO, purchasers frequently compare a per seat cost with a per enterprise cost. They start out thinking: We just need this for a few power-users, so the per enterprise cost don't look too hot.. Then by the time the find out a whole bunch of people can use the software, they've already sunk time into getting it working. So they either shell out an equivalent number of $ they would have spent on the 400-centric software, or they just bootleg it. If it CAN be done on a PC, it's a tough market... Doesn't really matter if it's efficient to do it that way or not. Entry level price often dictates... So if you can market a product as something EVERY user MUST HAVE, you'll probably have better luck selling in the $K price range on a per processor or tier arrangement. The feature of capturing job info sounds rare, and may be worth some $. But IIRC I did a crude version of that 8 or 10 years ago, so somebody's bound to release it as OSS or shareware, and take away that selling point. (Never tried to duplicate the job#, BTW.) If you research what's out there, there may be different products that do pieces of what your talking about, but nothing that covers the entire range. I don't know... (Again, check out what RJS is up to lately.) Now, if that's the case, and customers actually need that broad of an offering.. you'd have a much better opportunity... Your product would start looking good, as soon as the purchaser has to look at 2 or 3 products to do what they need... However, IMNAI (ISV). jt > -----Original Message----- > From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com > [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Brad Jensen > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 9:47 PM > To: midrange-l@midrange.com > Subject: Help me build some useful things for the iSeries > > > I'm a vendor of archive systems for the AS/400. Ours is PC based, > but from the very start > we out green screen access into our product (we did it at first > with screen scraping you would not believe!) > That was 12 years ago. > > Now we do everything TCP/IP. As a part of our system, we created > programmable FTP and LPD servers on the PC. > > We've started to branch out with new products designed around > these capabilities - like a report bursting and distribution > system. Next, a PDFMailer to email reports. > > Now I am thinking of other things to do with this - like may > WEBOUTQ, to print OUTQ entries to a web server, saving all the > JOB, FILE, USER, USERDATA, DATE, PAGES, and TIME info, while > converting the files to PDF so they can be viewed over the web > without downloading the whole thing at once. Do you guys think > this would be a useful thing, priced at about 3k? The idea is that > you save your reports to it, and then you can go back and search > by date, job, etc. With disk space so cheap on a PC, you could > probably keep years with of reports for most iSeries systems. > > I'm also wondering about print to XLS, print to MDB, print to > HTML, print to XML, etc. (we have a data extractor program that we > can run in batch.) We like to do things so that they are hands > free on the PC - using CL to control the process for the AS/400 > side. > > What about an XML interface to green screen aps? > > I really wish I could.... > > ? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) > mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. >
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