RE: Thats all folks!

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(2) & (1) DDS already has this stuff - menu bars, dropdown lists,
scrollbars, are all keywords in DDS. On a green screen they work in
character mode, in a graphical emulator you get the graphical stuff. It's
an enhanced 5250 for graphical stuff.

There IS a gui designer for DDS display files - CODE Designer.

At 01:51 PM 12/18/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> At 03:16 PM 12/17/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> >  [snip]
> > What would I do, if I could make the decisions for the iSeries division?
> >
> > (1) Create a new way of communicating with terminals, instead of the
> >      5250 data stream, that allows for graphical terminals.
> >
> > (2) Make it just as easy to develop graphical applications on the
> >      iSeries as it is to develop green-screen.    Incorporate graphical
> >      controls into DDS, so existing software can immediately look
> >      graphical without changing the RPG/COBOL code.
> >
> > (3) Lose the reliance of Windows for Ops Nav, etc.   Instead, use the
> >      graphical data stream.   Make a terminal emulator for Windows,
> >      of course, but also make it availble for Linux/BSD/MacOS, etc.
> >      Keep the PC side as simple as possible, so that a terminal can
> >      be used as a complete replacement.
> >
> > The idea is, you write the software for the iSeries.  You deploy it
> > to the iSeries.  The only platform required to use it is the iSeries.
> >
> > Software is very simple to write, because that's what business people
> > want when they're developing software.  They're not computer geeks like
> > Unix people, they're businessmen.  They want something easy that will
> > be modern and stable.
> >
> > Don't use a web browser as a terminal.  They're unstable.  Every browser
> > displays things differently.  They are much more complicated to develop
> > software for than a green-screen.  They're designed for reading hyper text
> > documentation, not running an application in.   It has been proven time
> > and time again that client/server is expensive to maintain... this is the
> > main reason why the TCO of the iSeries is lower.   Web is a client/server
> > software!
> >
> > Get the idea?  Keep the paradigms that have always made the iSeries
> > strong, but UPDATE THEM TO MODERN TIMES.