RE: Say Hello to IBM System i5!

Joe
Is PSC/400 a product of plutabrothers ?

At 06:04 PM 2/2/2006, Joe Pluta wrote:

You're missing my point.  Even PSC/400, which because of its design has more
functionality available than any other solution, really needs some creative
techniques to do simple conversions.  For example, creating a subfile with
action codes requires at the very least a way to send all the available
action codes, and this is outside the realm of the screen scraper.  This
sort of metadata needs to be sent either ahead of the screen or with the
screen.  Ahead of the screen means a non-zero footprint on the client, while
sending data with the screen means somehow extending the 5250 data stream.

Yes, there are good solutions WITHIN THE CONSTRAINTS of the 5250 data
stream, but those constraints cripple all but the most advanced techniques.

And finally, even though we have engineered solutions to these problems,
we're still not the answer.  We're closer than anyone else, I think, but we
still don't seamlessly integrate with the application generators and until
that happens, you won't have a truly productive legacy integration and
extension environment.

Joe

> From: Trevor Perry
>
> Without being obtuse, I did say "IBM needs to find ~the~ solution that
> they
> will offer". I maintain that WDHT is the ~one~ that they will offer. I did
> not comment on its capabilities or functionality. I am less worried that
> IBM
> does not have the ~best~ solution out there - just that they stick to ONE.
> I
> think this opens the competition up, and to disagree with you, I think
> there
> are some good solutions out there - from programming to dynamic refacing.
>
> I do agree with you Joe - that IBM needs better tools. But while they
> don't
> give them to us, you and your competitors have a market!


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