Re: open and fill a new ACS window/session from an already open ACS session

If you improve the 5250 interface by adding scroll bars rather than
converting it to a modern interface then you are just doing the user and
the platform a disservice.

You are just providing more scaffolding and excuses not to move to a modern
interface and making the platform look old and outdated into the bargain.

Would you write a program for any kind of actual widespread business use
that ran in DOS on a Windows PC ?

On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 3:17 PM Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Actually, Jon, I do agree with you. I like and enjoy lots of new ways to
use the best platform out there. I really love the stuff using IWS, web
services make a lot of sense to me, and .json opens lots of new doors.
My first web page served off an AS-400 was openly available on the
Internet more than 20 years ago. So yeah, I like the new stuff.

On the other hand, some of the old stuff has a lot of potential because,
as is often mentioned, it works; day after day, season after season, it
just works.

5250 with a scroll bar? Why not have subfiles that page, inch, and
scroll, all with just one word; not one single line of programming
needed? I mention scrollbars and get scoffed. Yet my cell phone has
a scroll bar and no page-up/page-down keys; our users use scroll bars,
not paging keys. Other enhanced features are just as useful, and yes,
some of them are really, really clunky.

All in all, I accept that the 5250 horse is aging but 5250 doesn't look
dead to me. Still lots of it out there from any stories I here.


On 3/8/2020 4:55 PM, Jon Paris wrote:

I know Booth won't agree - but the horse is dead and it is time to stop

beating it.

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