RE: E-Commerce -- SYSTEM21

There is a tool  from Progress software Apptivity that we have used for a
number of clients that does not require anything special on the 400 except
the Java toolkit for the JDBC driver.  You can create Java based inquiries
and status reports very quickly and deliver them to your customers.

As long as the database is external, this would work great.

You can download a sample test at www.progress.com then follow the like to
the Apptivity group.

john

John Bussert
jbussert@stecnet.com
Swift Technologies, Inc.
847-289-8339
847-289-8939 fax

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-jbausers-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-jbausers-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Dan Thomas
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 1999 11:25 AM
> To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'; 'JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: E-Commerce
>
>
>       We are interested in giving existing customers the ability to order
> products and check on order / shipment status via the Internet.  I would
> expect our volume to initially be about 25 new orders per day and 50 order
> inquiries (this is a small percent of our total volume).  I have a feeling
> many of our customers will prefer to place their order via the
> telephone but
> would use the system for order inquiries.
>
>       We are running JBA V3.5.0 on our AS/400 620 V4R2 along with multiple
> NT servers on our LAN / WAN.   We also have a AS/400 150 V4R2 which is
> currently not being used.   Our network is already connected to
> the Internet
> with a firewall.
>
>       I don't consider any of the JBA screens to be user friendly enough
> for the casual user, nor would they have any logic for
> restricting customers
> to only seeing information pertaining to them, so I don't think 5250
> emulation or GUI'd/Java screen scraper version of existing
> screens would be
> of much value.  For order entry, I would envision using a
> separate Internet
> Order Entry application that we would feed into our system as if
> it had been
> received as an ANSI X.12 850 Purchase Order (phase 1) and phase 2 load the
> orders online with immediate inventory allocation, credit checking, etc.
> Ability to handle credit cards would be a real plus.  Obviously this
> application would have to receive downloaded items/prices from our JBA
> system.   For order / shipment status inquiries I would prefer to have an
> application developed that would access our JBA files online.  An option
> would be to download this information on some schedule to another
> application/server if there was a good package available already for order
> status inquiries.
>
>       We are in the exploratory stage.  We don't have much inhouse
> expertise with E-Commerce and I'm considering hiring someone to
> handle that
> for us.
>
>       Any suggestions for tools and packages to help us attain our goals?
> TIA.
>
> Dan Thomas
> Sr. VP Information Systems
> Medical Distribution, Inc.
> 4500 Progress Blvd
> Louisville, KY  40218-5058
> Phone (502) 454-9013 ext 120
> email  DThomas@lpw-mdi.com
>
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