Re: Tool to Modernize IBMi Screens into GUI

The other side of the coin is, to me at least, is that users used to the
"fast entry" of green screens wouldn't want a web update, but would
eventually use it after the initial shock.

Back in the mid to late 80s I worked for the Bank of New Zealand.

I was visiting our Singapore branch doing some sort of systems upgrade. We
were using the Kapiti International Banking System.
The BNZ was offering decent interest rates on deposits of $50k plus and the
uptake (and turnover) of these deposits was massive.

I remember watching the bank staff cranking through huge amounts of data
entry as deposits were taken or rolled over.
(Although the system offered variable term deposits that could be
auto-renewed, generally the customers insisted on a fixed deposit that
would expire and had to be re-entered afresh)
The speed and accuracy of their data input was astounding. No point in
fancy graphics - no one was looking at the screens...

That memory has often surfaced over the years and while I know that web
apps can be coded in such a way that mouse usage is optional - it's still
hard to imagine the same speed of data entry.