Re: 5250 for iPhone -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: 5250 for iPhone
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:16:31 -0500
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Trevor Perry wrote:

It does. Like it always did. The same way. As it always did.

But now we are in the 21st century.

Yes, but even in the 21st century computers have consoles that are needed to check the status of jobs, answer messages, etc.

I really don't think the iPhone app is going to be all that useful for doing heavy duty 5250 interactions. I know the Windows Mobile version wasn't.
What it was good for, however, was basic console operations ... nothing heavy duty.

Modernization is a good thing ... but there's always going to a place for simple operations.

david

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