I understand this sentiment and agree that for casual users, bosses,
salesmen, and others with limited needs, the web is the better choice.
I'd add that there is an awful lot of tribal knowledge built into
existing 5250 solutions; duplicating that knowledge for the web is
costly, difficult, and for regular users, of little value.
This is not an either/or choice; one can have a glide path to the future
with 5250 aging out over time, not some helter-skelter race to doom with
incredible losses of tribal knowledge.
An alternative is to use the design features and ideas that web
designers use in their applications and apply it to our current work.
We're allowed to use their good ideas.
* Do we really need to insist on seeing how many fields we can cram
onto an 80-column screen?
* Do we really need to think of 9,999-row subfiles?
* Do we really need to avoid radio buttons, check boxes, and
mouse-button navigation?
* Do we really need to avoid drill-downs, filter-bys, and sort-by
columns (ascending & descending)?
* Why not use drop-down boxes for validations?
My point is, there is no rule, nothing sacred, about 1980s design; we
are allowed to move 5250 into the 21st Century. Is 5250 the futuire? Of
course not, but fer Pete's sake, lets use what we have to our advantage .
On 5/30/2020 11:25 AM, raul wrote:
I am a fan for RPG and the i, but I agree that the green screen is not
for users. Go to web.
midrange.com
