Web Interfacing Advantages?

["Brian Piotrowski" <bpiotrowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

 

Our operations have been using the old "green screen" applications since
we received our AS/400.  That being said, the programs work fine (albeit
clumsy as everything must be typed in as opposed to a "point and click"
interface), but the users are looking for more GUI, as a lot of our
other applications use a web interface.

 

With all of the new and wonderful technologies that IBM has been
releasing with the latest iteration of the O/S, I am looking to the
future and move most (if not all) of our interactive applications to a
web interface.  However, I have been meeting a lot of resistance from
the "old school" senior AS/400 programmers/users here who do not see a
need to move any of the apps.  They claim that web interfaces are "too
confusing" and the users would not understand them (even though 95%+ of
our users are very familiar with Windows interfaces).

 

The main reason why I would like to move to a web environment is the
simple fact that I am programming twice - once in the web interface, and
AGAIN for those users who use only green screen.

 

Can anyone provide me any information as to the advantages of moving to
web GUIs in lieu of green screens?  From what I understand, moving the
applications to web interfaces will reduce the amount of interactive
traffic on the AS/400 - is that true?

 

Any information that anyone could provide would be most helpful, as I
have been tasked by the managers to provide appropriate reasoning to
making the move to a GUI.

 

Thanks!

 

Brian.

 

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Brian Piotrowski

Specialist - I.T.

Simcoe Parts Service, Inc.

Ph: 705-435-7814 x343

Fx: 705-435-6746

bpiotrowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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