bar code scanner from intermec (was DCS300)

We use Intermec 2415 hand held scanners for a WMS system.
These scanners have built in 5250 emulation.
You code the programs as you do for normally.
When we do the DDS we limit the display to the 16 rows by
20 cols (from memory).  All is coded in RPG III.
Works fine, connected to a RF device
on a TCP-IP network.

Frank Kolmann


>date: Fri, 28 May 2004 10:06:16 -0400
>from: "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