Re: HP Stimulus Package

[Mike Eovino <meovino@xxxxxxxxx>]

We use HATS for quick and dirty 5250 to browser conversion -- screen
scraping is all it is.  But if it's all you need, it does the trick.
I have done the IBM lab for using HATS to turn a 5250 app into a web
service.  Haven't used this functionality in real life yet, but it can
be done.  It's an interesting concept.

I did this a couple of years ago; I've heard that with newer versions
of HATS, it's easier now.

Mike E.

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:57 PM,  <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > John,
> >
> > There are several vendors out there with products like that.  IBM's
> > product is HATS for Host Application Tranformation Services or something
> > like that.  It will raw guify it and you can extend that without modifying
> > the underlying application.
>
> do many shops use HATS?  I have only seen it demo'd at user groups. My
> admittedly uninformed impression was that you had to pay extra to use
> it, that you had to completely change from green screen to the browser
> and that it was itself a dead end. You cant gradually switch from HATS
> to a mainstream web whatever like PHP.
>
> What I see the need for are HTML and javascript extensions to 5250.
> Where an unused 5250 control code ( or better, an existing passthru
> escape code ) tells the 5250 client that what follows in the
> datastream is HTML that should be rendered in the 5250 window itself.
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