Re: Looking for like-minded programmers who use the enhanced featuresof 5250

So you're going to give a %150,000 rig to a guy to do his job but a hardened tablet is just too much money to spend???  Or a guy can't speak English but he can write it?    As to a scale shack... I haven't seen a new scale installation in the past 35 years that relied upon pencil & paper to capture data.

Are there non-computerized facilities?  Sure.  But they're not relevant in this discussion.

The whole point is that the World has moved on.  Data-capture jobs are disappearing.  Walk through an Amazon warehouse, or even a Walmart.  Watch how often paid employees, anywhere, routinely type data.  It just doesn't happen anymore.  Not even quantities at cash registers.  Sunday I bought food, including bananas.  At a self-checkout I had to type b-a-n-a.  That was it.  4 key strokes for $120 worth of food. The old days are gone.


On 6/27/2018 4:51 PM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

It's not that simple Alan.

First off you are assuming the driver has a device that was provided by the
company to use.
Next you are assuming that message they send is formatted in such a way
that it's usable
Then you are also assuming the individual is English literate, a bad
assumption in today's workplace.

I have several customers in the same situation as Paul's. It's not an easy
problem to solve. even if you give them a device (which get lost, bashed
up, and abused in all manor of ways) and barcodes to scan for each
character, it's still a crap shoot if the general population will be able
to use it.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects