RE: How many of you will stay at V7R5 lower due to SDA removal ?

Why does the company size matter? What matters is that the application is most likely doing what the owner(s) of the company want it to do.

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Peter Dow
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2025 1:19 PM
To: Jason Olson <josys36@xxxxxxxxx>; Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: How many of you will stay at V7R5 lower due to SDA removal ?

How big is that company, and what kind of data are they entering? I can see a small company still doing manual entry, but a large company?

On 7/29/2025 11:32 AM, Jason Olson wrote:

True,

And a lot of data comes in automatically now.

However, I personally know of one company in New York that does a lot
of things manually, and the whole application is System/36. They have
no native IBMi at all. It was quite a shock for me.

J


On 7/29/25 13:19, Peter Dow wrote:

How many heads-down, high-speed data entry jobs are there still out
there?

Find other ways of getting the data entered. Barcode/QR scanners. OCR.

I always thought the idea of web GUI is to get the customer to do the
data entry for you. Make it simple, with drop downs for fields that
require specific values, and reasonableness tests for other fields to
reduce errors. But primarily get Amazon's 10M customers to do the
data entry instead of sending in a piece of paper that someone has to
manually enter into the computer.

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On 7/29/2025 10:12 AM, Patrik Schindler wrote:

Hello Paul,

Am 29.07.2025 um 17:04 schrieb Paul Nelson<nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Nothing beats the green screen for high speed data entry. Prove me
wrong.

I can't. First, I'm biased. I like green screens and command lines
in general. Second, I have by far not enough real world experience
in the area of heads down, high speed data entry.

:wq! PoC

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