RE: Looking for like-minded programmers who use the enhanced featuresof 5250 -- MIDRANGE-L

The client I mentioned previously has 9,000 of them banging away at a 5250
application.

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 409-267-4027
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth
Martin
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 11:05 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Looking for like-minded programmers who use the enhanced
featuresof 5250

What modern application has employees keying in data? Either it is
scanned or it is keyed in by individuals not on the payroll (another
company's employees or directly by customers). The days of the
heads-down data entry operator have gone the way of the Foto-Mat kiosk
operator.

On 6/26/2018 10:06 PM, John McKee wrote:

I can attest to the speed of movement. Before Y2K, I saw ladies enter

data

very easily on a DOS based application. They were very proficient. The
software that replaced the DOS system was Y2K enabled. Maybe just barely,
To move from field to field, one hand moved from keyboard to mouse. Move
to next fied. Click in the box. Hand moved back to keyboard. It was
painful to watch. That version was a slap-dash implementation. It was
replaced a year later with more reasonable access. But, it was never as
quick or as smmoth as the DOS version. As bad as the initial version was,
another vendor's concept was even worse and was ten times the cost. It
seems like neither product was designed with end user efficiency in mind.

John McKee

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 8:45 PM, Kevin Monceaux <Kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Booth,

On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 02:54:54PM -0500, Booth Martin wrote:

They are used to mouse clicks and the mouse wheel. Isn't it time we
acknowledged this in our green screen applications?

No, nothing slows down a data entry operator more than having to reach

for

a
mouse. Encourage them to embrace the keyboard.

I am not particularly interested in lectures on the purity of the 1980s
and F-keys and why it is important to teach users that F21 is
shift-F-something and that the only way to close a program is with F-3.

Upgrade to a PC keyboard with 24 function keys, then F21 is F21. :-)

I've

been using one like this at home:

https://www.Amazon.com/Unicomp-Model-Buckling-Spring-
Keyboard/dp/B01MDRT4L4

I need to invest in another one for work.

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