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

I agree.

We've started with Presto for instant web, and then have built add-ons that are not available in green screen. We never mandated people switch from Green Screen to web, we simply made it advantageous and inviting.   We now have locations asking to switch to web because they have seen what other locations have.

Gavin.

On 7/30/2025 10:59 AM, Greg Wilburn wrote:

This has not been my experience...

While the browser version of our Customer Service application is infinitely better, people who have been using the green screen version for 5+ years are a very hard sell. They'll use the browser in a heartbeat for new applications, etc. When it comes to the browser replacement for an existing green screen app, they'll use it when they need a feature not available in green screen -- But then revert back to the green screen.

New users won't touch the green screen.

My tactics are:
1. No enhancements or changes to the green screen applications
2. Add new capabilities to the browser version that users simply can't do without

I agree that the green screen may be slightly quicker for "heads down" data entry of a sales order... but we don't do that anymore (less than 4% of our orders).

Change is hard.



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

For us, professionals, with a lot of practice in the green screen, we find
it great for running system commands, and even seu is very usable tool.
I wrote lots of green screen applications starting with the S/34, until the
web became more mature.
Since 1997, I have never found any user application that works better in
the green screen than in the web.
All new applications I did for web, and for the ones that had a lot of use
I did a web version, users choose the web every time, never went back to
the green screen.
I myself, still use the green screen for IBM commands.

El mar, 29 de jul de 2025, 01:48, Patrik Schindler<poc@xxxxxxxxxx>
escribió:

Greg Wilburn
Director of IT
301.895.3792 ext. 1231