Re: VisualAge RPG for AS/400?

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If performance changed by 5 times then is it possible that the green 
screen version was just plain badly done?  Or, are there a lot of 
business rules that are no longer relevant or needed with the gui 
interface?  I mean, 5 times is a huge change.  That is too big a change 
to be just mouse vs. keyboard, isn't it?

Trevor Perry wrote:
> Why are we still entering data into a dumb terminal in the 21st century?
>
> I used a GUI tool to automate a green screen order entry function. Green 
> screen terminals were previously used to enter orders, and the fastest clerk 
> could get 80 orders a day. Now that it is automated and GUI, and he can do 
> over 400 a day.
>
> In this case, the users did not ~want~ to replace their green screen entry. 
> In a short time, however, they became familiar with the new interface, and 
> now they do not ~want~ to replace their GUI order entry. This was a business 
> decision made by management, and they were rewarded.
>
> So, should we allow programmers to keep using SEU and PDM because they just 
> don't ~want~ to use RSE??
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jon Paris"
> Subject: RE: VisualAge RPG for AS/400?
>
> > > > Why does a data entry clerk need the internet or anything BUT a green
> > screen, dumb terminal to enter the data???
> >
> > Let's assume for the moment that they _don't_ need anything else.  It is
> > still irrelevant.  It is what they _want_ that matters, not what they 
> > need.
> > And even if the users don't want it - their management still do.  And they
> > are the ones who make the decisions.
> >
> >
> > The replacement by cruddy Windows/Oracle/nameYourPoison "solutions" of 
> > large
> > numbers of iSeries around the world should be enough for all of us to take
> > that as a given.  I know of one case where a system that allowed a 5250
> > operator to process 10 - 15 orders an hour was replaced by an Oracle based
> > solution.  Even after tripling the hardware beyond the original spec for 
> > the
> > iSeries replacement, they could still only manage 4 - 5 orders an hour. 
> > But
> > they are still using it - the 5250s are gone.  Does it make sense?  No. 
> > But
> > nobody ever said it had to!
> >
> > Jon Paris
> > Partner400