Re: Say Hello to IBM System i5!

["Trevor Perry" <tperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Keith,

The people who are unwilling to change the perception ARE the people who are 
stuck in their green screen. Users and programmers being unable to change 
does not make the System i5 a legacy system. Those are legacy users on a 
modern system.
Most applications that are business related ARE modal, whether you run them 
through a web interface or not. I have personally been involved with 
transformations of 5250 applications into GUI applications that are easier 
to use and increase user productivity while remaining a modal application. 
You have system design and browser technology mixed up.
As for costs, replacing a system is much more expensive than leveraging 
existing systems and modernizing them in MOST cases. More often than not, 
legacy applications are thrown out due to the inability of the IT department 
to understand modernization or the vendors ability to deceive a customer 
into believing that a graphical application has more depth of business 
functionality than a legacy application.
Trevor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Carpenter"
Subject: Re: Say Hello to IBM System i5!


> I'm sure the person staring at a terminal (real or emulated) is relieved
> to know 5250 is just a data stream.  You're talking tools and what a
> could be developed if the midrange customer wanted to commit resources
> to it.  IBM offers a bunch of tools themselves, but none of them have
> changed the perception of the 400/i5 as a greenscreen legacy system.
>
> Transforming a 5250 data stream won't produce a decent GUI.  Most 5250
> apps are modal and really need to be reworked for better UI.  This is
> costly and why the terminal app is more often thrown out and replaced
> with something new.
>
>
> Keith
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