Re: HATS ?

Thanks, I think I got it figured out using googl'n IBM Rational Host Access
Transformation Services. Does anyone have cost comparisons to such
products/projects.

Exampe: If you have HATS today what could/should you do.

Could ZEND be the better alternative or ??

We have been looking at RTC and RDPi for code development etc, and then
using SVN etc. So at what point do you go outside the boundaries of
Rational/Eclipse if you spend $$'s on these toolsets, could HATS be
incorporated into this 'VS' going with ZEND and PHP. I am just trying to
figure out costing 'vs' getting off of green screen(putting it lightly).
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Joe Pluta
It's just that there isn't all that much interest in HATS. It's a
relatively old technology and it has limited applicability. For most
business cases there are better answers.

IT Jungle published an article a few days ago on "modernization" and quoted
quite a bit from IBM's Alison Butterill:

http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh060611-story03.html

"Some people might call this putting lipstick on a 5250 screen. More
universal
terms are screen scraping or refacing, which means putting a graphical
image on
a local device and most often this is a browser. In most cases, this does
not
involve manipulation of code, although could include building macros,
adding
extensions, calling APIs, and triggering screen displays by mouse clicks."

"But for many companies the goal is to create more flexible code as part of
the
modernization process. Flexible code is another way of saying
interoperability."

"You need to modularize, which means taking programs with thousands of
lines of
code and breaking them into functional components--user interface, business
logic, data, and maybe print modules," Butterill emphasizes. "It's
important to
isolate the functions. Once it's modularized, it's easy to pull out a
module and
replace it."

-Nathan

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