Re: Moving from Green screen app to GUI because of push back from younger employees?

5250 is great, but web is easier. You have a browser in every computer,
laptop, smartphone, etc.  Besides, user are already trained for web
(usually not optimal)

Try CGIDEV, free download at http://www.easy400.net/ ; It is at least 20
times faster than PHP, it allows to do the HTML separated from the logic
and you only need to "clean up" the input when you use dynamic SQL, with
static SQL or native input/output you get "automatic" protection against
SQL injection.


On 12/12/2017 04:25 PM, Booth Martin wrote:

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
<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
<http://www.martinvt.com/SQL_-simple-/SQL_Art_Editor/sql_art_editor.html>
editor, for the headings

Saving a user's last settings
<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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