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

Here are a few questions for you:

1. Do you use 5250 enhanced features like scroll bars, check boxes,
radio buttons, and  attractive window borders?
2. Are your subfiles  filtered to be human-scale?
3. Do you use MOUBTN()?
4. Are your screens highly mouse-able?
5. Do you use personalized/remembered values for each user where
appropriate?
6. Do you have a 5250 utility FAQ application, user maintained, to
capture and maintain tribal knowledge?


On 3/9/2020 4:33 PM, Eddie Gomez wrote:

You’re welcome. I’m working at a client site that is fully invested in 5250. Yes, it’s arcane compared to all that fancy GUI interfaces. I can certainly understand everyone’s opinion on it, I kind of fall into that camp as well, we are doing some seriously fancy stuff with 5250 that it’s actually quite fun. We’re interfacing native 5250 screens to work with web browsers when needed (MacOS & Windows) and a properly designed 5250 system with interfaces to web services works quite well. It certainly modernized a lot of workflows.

I’ve been in the “AS400” field for 30+ years and understand how the labor pool is. I’m sure some day when this company is under new ownership, they’ll look at all the 5250 screens and probably come to the same conclusion. That's tomorrow, but not today.:)