RE: 5250 to Web Interface / Application Modernization

I don't know. I think a sizeable group in #4 run alternative language environments on IBMi.



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From: Nathan Andelin [mailto:nandelin@xxxxxxxxx]
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Subject: Re: 5250 to Web Interface / Application Modernization

Pity you don't sell it or Open Source it. Powerful stuff.

We sell our web portal and developer toolkit. It's geared more for organizations that want to do very broadly-scoped, new application development on IBM i, say ERP class systems.

I've never been able to get a proper feel for the IBM i tools market. It appears to me that IBM i shops fall into a few niches:

1. Maintain 5250 interfaces
2. Maintain the 5250 paradigm via screen scrapers and interfaces that implement open-access handlers.
3. Casual, modest web development via CGIDEV2.
4. Migrate the UI to another platform and language environment (Java, PHP), while retaining an IBM i database and modest stored procedure development.