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Why are your users keying time cards at all? The workers should be clocking in and out on a mobile timeclock and the entries automatically collected in time cards. The guy in the trailer does a quick edit on a good gui and submits for payroll.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Nelson
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 4:37 PM
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OK, now key 150 time cards in time to make a union payroll.

:-))

Paul Nelson
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You can roll a jQueryMobile theme in green and black and viola !!

Green Screen Mobile :-)

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date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:22:13 -0500
from: "Paul Nelson" <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: New COMMON Conference

FWIW, for a construction company, nothing beats a green screen for banging in time cards and invoices.

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 512-392-2577
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 4:19 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: New COMMON Conference


FWIW.... I agree with your users. When I see green screen, I go "ewwwwww", too.

However, I don't like that you are associating GreenScreen=IBMi, and GUI=Windows.

You can (and should!) write GUI apps on IBM i. I've been telling people to do that for 10+ years. Your users shouldn't know or care where the data resides... what they should know/care about is that it's stable, and always there when they need it. And IBM i excels at that.

Take iPhone, iPad, Android phones, Blackberries... all easy to use GUI
interfaces, none of them are Windows in any way shape or form. How about XBox, Wii, PS3... all easy to use GUI devices, no Windows involved.

IBM i can be a major player in that world too, using GUI technologies like web. The only reason you still code green screens is because you (or someone else in your environment) has made that choice.

Note that we actively discourage green-screen sessions at COMMON. (Much more so than Richard's .NET sessions!)



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