Re: Fwd: Re: Maintaining "Notes" in an application

Actually, the BPCS ECN file is the very file I am interested in maintaining.

We are working on improving the order fulfillment process, which is built on 
BPCS.  There are a couple of approval points which we currently do with paper.  
I want to add web screens to allow the relevant users to approve (or not) and 
add relevant notes.  But the notes have to still work at the next step, which 
is green screen BPCS.

I am thinking of using a text box, forcing the width to be 50, allowing the 
users to word wrap themselves, and splitting the returned text field into 50 
byte chunks for the ESN text field.

Should work, at least well enough to make the process changes.

<rob=tksaTn4SAz0AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:<OF46F4E747.E164CC22-ON05256D33.0065788E-05256D33.00662130@xxxxxxx>...
> I believe that I understand.  Instead of a notes file like BPCS' ECN file 
> (which has four keys:
> note type,
> customer or order number,
> ship to number or order line number,
> note number),
> with a single fixed length for each line of notes you have one varying 
> length field.  And html handles this quite nicely with the text keyword. 
> No, I don't believe that 5250 has anything this flexible.  Be prepared to 
> replace 1 line of code with a hundred or more.  Or rethink why you need 
> access to this field with a 5250 application.  (Been there, have the 
> scars.)
> 
> Rob Berendt
> -- 
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
> Benjamin Franklin 

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