Re: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Ingvaldson, Scott" <SIngvaldson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was sort of under the impression that iSeries 
> Navigator or IBM Director (not to mention the myriad of
> client front ends) might count as a modern GUI interface.
>  I'm more worried about the old school AS400
> people who refuse to learn to use these tools.
. . .

Yes, they are. But if 5250 capabilities had kept pace with 
X-terminal capabilities, you wouldn't need a WinDoze box 
to use it, or Host Servers, or anything else along those 
lines.

As it is, IBM InfoWindow II terminals have mice, and the 
semigraphics characters to support text-screen versions of 
most of the common GUI constructs, but the documentation 
on how to write for those features is only slightly better 
than the documentation for the old "WP mode" (and in case 
you haven't looked, "WP mode" documentation is practically 
nonexistent).

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JHHL