Re: IBM i 7.6 Development tools

Raul

I have long felt that a graphical interface (browser or something like Visual Basic or C#) is slower for heads-down data entry, since it is primarily eye-driven - for it to be otherwise requires careful design, as you suggest. Use of the mouse is a visual thing - 5250 with good screen design is like touch-typing, with newlines and tabs, your navigation is mechanical.

I think both of us might be as right as the other, as wrong as the other, I am not comfortable with an all-or-nothing statement about these things - not even mine!

*Regards*

*Vern Hamberg*

IBM Champion 2025 <cid:part1.qzrobm6X.OmlXclFy@centurylink.net> CAAC (COMMON Americas Advisory Council) IBM Influencer 2023

On 4/17/2025 2:25 PM, Raul Alberto Jager Weiler wrote:

For heads-on data entry the web is faster. You should add some javascript,
and design your forms to be used without a mouse.

El jue, 17 de abr de 2025, 16:17, Justin Taylor<jtaylor.0ab@xxxxxxxxx>
escribió:

True, although in 2025 any job where 5250 is the right tool is a job you
probably shouldn't be doing (e.g. heads-down data entry).



On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM Patrik Schindler<poc@pocnetnet> wrote:

Hello Raul,

Am 17.04.2025 um 18:40 schrieb Raul Alberto Jager Weiler <
raul.jager@xxxxxxxxx>:

IBM I is a great web server.
You don't need interactive.

Just because you have hammer, not everything has suddenly become a nail.

Use the right tool for the job.

:wq! PoC

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