Re: HP Stimulus Package

ummm ever hear of the PHP 5250 bridge?

Thanks,
Tommy Holden



From:
Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
To:
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Date:
02/06/2009 03:29 PM
Subject:
Re: HP Stimulus Package
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On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:57 PM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John,

There are several vendors out there with products like that. IBM's
product is HATS for Host Application Tranformation Services or something
like that. It will raw guify it and you can extend that without

modifying

the underlying application.

do many shops use HATS? I have only seen it demo'd at user groups. My
admittedly uninformed impression was that you had to pay extra to use
it, that you had to completely change from green screen to the browser
and that it was itself a dead end. You cant gradually switch from HATS
to a mainstream web whatever like PHP.

What I see the need for are HTML and javascript extensions to 5250.
Where an unused 5250 control code ( or better, an existing passthru
escape code ) tells the 5250 client that what follows in the
datastream is HTML that should be rendered in the 5250 window itself.