RE: ASNA VRPG for .net or Websmart or RPGsp or something else?

My boss wants it to look as good as a web page but function like the green
screens for the data entry work. We have around 12-15 full time data entry
techs so the function keys are really necessary...he (the boss) also wants
to cut down on the interactive workload to save on cost. 

We will certainly look at the tools you suggested...after all you got us on
the web in the first place! What we're redoing now is the in-house software.
Thanks!      

Mary Koetting
Senior Programmer Analyst
Missouri Consolidated Health Care
573-526-2856
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Stone [mailto:brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 2:08 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] ASNA VRPG for .net or Websmart or RPGsp or something
else?

Just curious... seems like you (or your users) are on the
fence... do they want web apps, or green screen apps on the
web (your mention of using function keys to go to screens
is why I mention this).

It is possible to use function keys on the web, but why
would you?  If this is a heads down data entry app, maybe
you'd be best sticking with green screen?

If you want to create some nice web apps (with or without
function keys, what I would suggest) there are some good
tools out.  I have my eRPG SDK (www.erpgsdk.com) and there
are other tools out there like CGIDEV2 and I know Joe Pluta
also has some utilities that convert programs/DDS/etc to
JSPs.

For emailing my MAILTOOL utility works nice... I use both
it and the eRPG SDK heavily on my BVSTools.com website.

For scanning forms, if you store them in the IFS, it should
be fairly painless to display them in a web page.

Apps on the web do run batch, so that would help with your
interactive workload.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 11:30:21 -0500 
 Mary Koetting <Mary_Koetting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We're a small shop (5 RPG/COBOL programmers) with an I5
> Iseries (Apache
> server) and we're researching a new tool to write web
> applications and would
> appreciate any input you have on the subject...we have
> some visual RPG
> experience and have a couple of web applications using
> Brad Stone's eRPG. 
> 
>  
> 
> There will be forms entry, maintenance, automatic
> emailing, real time
> updating with about 100 users and it would use at least
> 30 files...would
> also love to have something in place that would capture
> the form as a
> scanned object and pass it to an Oracle database....we
> spend a lot of effort
> feeding forms to a scanner. Don't know if this is even
> possible but would
> save a lot of work.
> 
>  
> 
> We want to be able to use function keys to move from one
> screen to another. 
> 
>  
> 
> We would like to get cut down on our interactive workload
> and also need to
> keep track of who does what...we have a lot of PHI
> information (HIPAA) so we
> have to know when, how and who changed the information.
> I've seen a little
> of the Nexus Portal and I'd like to know if anyone has
> experience with it
> also.
> 
>  
> 
> We greatly appreciate any and all guidance...thanks!
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Mary Koetting
> 
> Senior Programmer Analyst
> 
> Missouri Consolidated Health Care
> 
> 573-526-2856
> 
>  
> 
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BVS.Tools
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