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A step in that direction may already be available to you. 5250 green
screen allows push buttons, radio buttons, check boxes, even scroll
bars. Granted, this is a long ways from a GUI interface, but its also
leaps ahead of most iSeries shops who refuse to program with the
enhanced tools provided 20+ years ago.
The biggest issue, but it can be worked around, is that way back when,
5250 , by necessity, was screen-at-a-time processing. Today's computer
applications are key-stroke processing.
I'd agree with the training thing. Today's user's understand "Shft-F5",
not "F17". They do not understand an F-key to accept a screen - they
expect "Enter" to be the "Accept Key." They expect drop-down boxes,
radio buttons & check boxes to set filters. They expect to click a
column heading to sort a subfile by the that column, and to click it
again to sort it in the other direction. This is all doable with 5250.
Pardon the rant, but this is a sore spot with me. We can't do
everything, but dang me, we can do a lot of it. If we wanted to. The
learning curve is in the range of one day.
Here is an application
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http://www.martinvt.com/SQL_-simple-/SQL_Personal_Menu/sql_personal_menu.html>
that you can copy/paste and have running in under an hour that shows a
newer approach. Its your own personal mouseable menu.
The ASCII Art
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http://www.martinvt.com/SQL_-simple-/SQL_Art_Editor/sql_art_editor.html>
editor, for the headings
Saving a user's last settings
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http://www.martinvt.com/SQL_-simple-/SQL_User_Preferences/sql_user_preferences.html>
for filters, starting position, or whatever...
I'll go one step farther: I am retired and bored out of my skull. If
you want a specific application as an example, just ask. I am glad for
the mental exercise.
On 12/12/2017 8:04 AM, Ken Meade wrote:
I had a request to update our interface from a green screen application to
a 'more modern GUI' because of an inability to keep new employees because
of the look/feel of the green screen apps and the ability to more easily
train them if the look/feel was something they were more familiar with.
I'm just curious if others have run into this as a reason to 'modernize'
their applications.
Thanks,
Ken Meade
Director of Information Technology | kmeade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
603.444.3570 |
1309 Mt. Eustis Road, Littleton, NH 03561
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