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  3. June 2012

RE: Package scale - input options

Dennis,

The idea is that it would be connected to a PC, with a green screen emulation session running. The scale would just be an input device when the cursor is in a particular field.

-mark

At 6/28/2012 06:12 AM, you wrote:
> What is required to pipe data from a package scale into a 5250 screen?
> Similar in concept to a barcode scanning gun.
>
> There is a (Toledo, I believe) scale with a USB connection. Is some
> specialized software required?
>
> TIA for any suggestions.

Sounds like it. In the first place, there is no USB port on the System i
(unless they've changed that in the past few years), so it's not going to be
a pure i solution. Unless I miss my guess (and it is a guess) you'll need
to attach it to a device (PC?) and have a program/app on that device that
will read the scale and then fill in a screen (or a field on a screen) with
the result.

Dennis Lovelady


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