Walden,
I appreciate *all* of the answers to my post, including yours (lol).
The client in question does not want the pepole in this specific department to have PC access at all.
I have suggested a restricted environment that would use a firewall to block all but email activity for them, but the client insists that they have only green screen access.
Given this, I have to look for another solution.
One possible solution is that it is not financially feasable to do this for a green screen only envrionment.
Other possible solutions are to either purchase a package that will do what they want, or to write it from scratch (see option 1 in that case :) ).
Seriously, I have recieved a number of replys with references to purchased solutions which I will look into.
Thanks again to all who helped in this.
Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst
IBM -e(logo) server Certified Systems Exper - iSeries Technical Solutions V5R2
IBM Certified Specialist- e(logo) server i5Series Technical Solutions Designer V5R3
IBM Certified Specialist- e(logo)server i5Series Technical Solutions Implementer V5R3
________________________________
From: Walden H. Leverich <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 3:01:19 PM
Subject: RE: Green Screen (Dumb Terminal) Email Client for System i
Mr. Leverich, if you can't say something constructive, why say
anything?
I actually considered whether to push the send or not for precisely that
reason. My mother taught me well, really. :-)
But sometime you've just gotta face the facts -- a green-screen only
environment is questionable in the first place, but ok, I can see the
need (maybe). But add to that that the client wants all the nice
features of a rich client email app, which would be trivial if the
client had PCs on the desk (Windows, Linux, Mac, who cares) but still
wants to keep the old style tubes. Just doesn't make sense, and I felt
it had to be called out. I never thought I'd find an idea sillier than
having programmers that don't have access to the internet, but I think
the idea of trying to provide a modern email client on a non-modern dumb
terminal might just take the cake.
Yes, I'm being blunt, and yes, I'm not helping the OP, at least not by
directly answering his question. But perhaps if enough of us said what
we're feeling ("what a silly requirement") then Jeff would have some
ammunition to go back to the client and fix the real problem. Of course
if Jeff doesn't like the answer he can just hit delete.
-Walden
midrange.com
