Re: Tool to Modernize IBMi Screens into GUI

Hi Raul,


Von meinem iPhone gesendet

Am 01.01.2025 um 01:22 schrieb Raul Alberto Jager Weiler <raul.jager@xxxxxxxxx>:

Web and green screens are too different for a conversion tool to do a good job.

Yes - that's true, but this is not stopping vendors to offer somehow good solutions for that.

You can re use a lot of the logic from the old programs, but you need to
adjust to the fact that the web is "connectionless", so you must organize
your programs as receiving a request, do the job and finish.

This is the point - personally I don't think, that pressing everting into the web/http concept is a good idea.

It forces developers AND users to make compromises that you don't have with "real" clients or 5250.

So IMHO it about time to create a new paradigm - maybe a new protocol - which offers sessions/transaction control. So that when the connection is interrupted, the session drops and open transactions are automatically rolled back.

Regards,
Daniel