RE: Is the death of CFINT available for current AS/400 owners?

[fiona.fitzgerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Joe summarises our choices
"Standard Edition means "no interactive, but relatively cheap", while
"Enterprise Edition" means "lots and lots of extra money for interactive
capabilities"

Like everyone else, we are proceeding towards V5R2 as soon as our Office
conversion is signed off.
My concerns are ;Our primary application is fine - it will soon be ready to
roll out an IE version. (With all the teething troubles etc but it does
have that option.) So one of our choices, as my boss sees it, is to avoid
the new interactive costs by upgrading to the Enterprise version; but how
do we then maintain our other utilities ? The auditors will be delighted
with such a change freeze !

I've queried the vendors of all our other utilities to date, as to whether
5250 emulation is necessary to continue to run their products, or whether
they can be 'interacted with' when changes are needed, via Internet
Explorer. Their replies vary from "Not this year" to "I don't know - could
you try it out & let me know ?"
                  So this will surely force vendors into rolling out a
quick & dirty web interface - which may not be free of performance problems
- or force their clients into paying quite a lot more to retain 5250 when
they upgrade. Some bargain ! Also we have a 3197 console, defaulting to
QCTL. Can this remain on either system, or must we risk a slower & less
reliable Windows interface ?

Over the next month I am really hoping for better answers from IBM. I don't
believe vendors of 5250 applications expected this quite so abruptly.

Fiona
fiona.fitzgerald@notes.royalsun.com