What Vern has written at the end of his post is the truest of all - everyone is right and everyone is wrong.
Having been around a long time, in many different industries, I will suggest that one industry to the next, and even one department within a company to the next, will favor one or another.
Look at retail - so much of the software on the platform is written to the green screen. However, once you move to the back-office, HR and such would like a pretty GUI interface over their parts. Transportation is another example - dock operations traditionally wants a green screen for speed of response, whereas, dispatching desires a pretty GUI since their data will be interfacing with routing software.
To mandate one or the other could, and would, be adversely received by different individuals in different functional departments based upon how they utilize the system.
Arguing over UI is just another version of "best tool for the job" and not that just because you as a developer want to write pretty GUI and not green screen (sorry that you need to be multi-faceted) and provide the user the experience that best suits their needs. Put aside your developmental bias and remember what we do isn't for our sake or use.
Yet again, just one man's thoughts.
Steve
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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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