Re: Web enablement options (previously private)

["Jay peasley" <jpeasley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam,

Back in my days as an insurance pgmr, PMSC was, and is, a four letter word. I 
am surprised (not really)that they are straying away from a M$ solution. Two 
years ago they were in bed with M$ and was to be moving their software off of 
the 400/iSeries. (Though it was written in Cool2E generated Cobol ... yuk!)

Jay

>The company that we purchase our rating software from is PMSC (now merged
>with CSC).  It is all green screen stuff, but apparently their "new" user
>interface is GUI and it uses a Jacada server to translate the 5250 screens
>to GUI.
>
>It looked neat when they demoed it.
>
>Apparently they are going that route because new business is not keen on the
>green screen approach and GUI based solutions are eating into their market.
>
>Even though it looked neat, it seemed more of a patchwork solution as
>opposed to a clean implementation.
>
>Only other thing I can add about Jacada is that they [PMSC] said it is Java
>based.
>
>Adam Lang
>Systems Engineer
>Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
>http://www.rutgersinsurance.com