DCS300

["Angela Wawrzaszek" <awawrzaszek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    Hi all,

 

    We currently use a bar code scanner from intermec but we use a
"middle man" concept where the data is sent from the RF devices to a PC,
validated against the as/400 and then sent to the as/400.    We would
like to get rid of this middle man concept.   I know there is a dcs300
controller that will allow the scanners and as/400 to talk directly.  We
are looking at purchasing a used one and I guess trying this out as a
"proof of concept"  that this will work this way and is just as reliable
or more than the existing way.   This will allow us to bring the
programming in house since it is just a 5250 RPG programming.  

 

What I would like to know is anyone using this and what do you think of
this way.  I know the current technology is to move forward with the 2.4
mhz from the 900 mhz.  We will move that way eventually as we will be
doing another RF project in the next year and the new section will have
2.4   but for now if we could just cut out the middle man pc we would be
happy.  Then eventually upgrade this section,  but the programming would
already be inplace it would just be hardware.

 

If anyone has any thoughts/ comments let me know.

 

Thankyou!!!!

 

Angela Wawrzaszek

Programmer/Analyst