"And please lets not turn this into yet another - "you can't do _real_ web apps with a 5250 base" because that is getting very old."
Sounds like an argument that I missed sometime in the past?
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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: 22 December 2010 12:10
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WEB400] 5250 programmer to web programmer
Good as the other suggestions made here are - it sounds to me as if you are describing the RPG Open Access tooling supported by Profound Logic and looksoftware.
Both are designed to allow you to keep the simplicity of the core 5250 model while extending into the full functionality of Web 2.0 type applications. That should keep your boss happy while enabling you to progress your own ideas of what can be done.
And please lets not turn this into yet another - "you can't do _real_ web apps with a 5250 base" because that is getting very old. It depends way too much on your definition of "real"
Jon Paris
www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com
On Dec 22, 2010, at 5:03 AM, web400-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
This is a thread to explore the questions of a 30+ year 5250 programmer
who wants to convince his boss to let him tackle web programming even
though the company has a web programming staff already and I have no
real world web experience.
Let me get it out of the way: my boss wants to screen scrape. He gets
to keep all of his RPG/5250 experts at 100% utilisation and he gets 'web
apps' in a short amount of time. I want to write web apps from scratch
rather than grey-screen our 5250 panels and call it 'web' because the
display device changed.
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