Re: Green-screen versus browser

[Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/25/05, Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > You have no idea how upsetting it is to me personally that we gripe and moan
> > about IBM and what they offer, then they give, literally give, us VARPG
> > which works, and the iSeries community  turns it down with barely a look.
> 
> Not just VARPG. They give us a free Web server. They give us CGIDEV2 for
> free. They give us Tomcat for free. And Java.  For the same price we pay
> for VARPG, we get access to a plethora of other tools, many of them GUI.

once you pay your 10K for the box - then you get this software for no
additional charge.  I have v5r1 on a 170.  In order to get the managed
provider for .net I would have to spend thousands to upgrade to v5r3.

> 
> IBM has given us TONS AND TONS of options for GUI and Web applications.

What IBM does not provide is a way to transition from 5250 to a  PC
<==> iSeries peer to peer GUI whatever.

A simple example:  PC user is signed onto the iSeries thru Client
Access/5250.  User selects option 5=display details from a subfile
display.  Instead of the RPG program sending another 5250 display
screen down to the user, you want to establish a socket connection to
that PC, send the data to the PC program on the other end of the
socket, and have that program put a WinForm window up to display the
option 5=display data.

How would you go about doing that?  It is not easy, if not impossible.
 The 5250 interactive job cannot start a thread to handle the socket
link because interactive jobs on the as400 cant multi thread.  The
issue of how do the WinForm window and the 5250 window interact with
each other is difficult because the as400 programmer has little
control over the 5250 display session once the display is input
inhibited.

-Steve