Re: HATS - Anybody using it on a regular basis

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Luis.

I downloaded the manual.  It is fairly comprehensive in its overview of 
modernization techniques and deals with each topic in enough detail to 
give you a pretty solid understanding of what the technology can do. In 
that respect, it is pretty good.  But the HATS tutorial is a retread of 
other tutorials I have already seen (they got a LOT of mileage out of 
the HATS 4.0 tutorial).  The tutorial runs out of gas pretty quickly 
when you want to do system wide component customization.  The screen 
specific customization tutorials I have seen so far are good, it is just 
the version of HATS they reference aren't  current and stuff works 
different now.

I do appreciate the link. That adds another book to my library and I may 
go back and read through the whole thing to get a better perspective on 
other "modernization techniques".  As it is, I have until next Thursday 
to get something pulled together and I haven't made much progress with 
online references.  I may dig a bit more into the internals, but HATS 
uses JSP's which I am not that knowledgeable about or (personally) a big 
fan of so I am not sure how far I can get down that road.

I need "HATS, Step by Step" but Joe Pluta hasn't written that one (yet) 
:-) !

Pete


Luis Rodriguez wrote:

> Pete,
>
> Although we don't work regulary with HATS, we have been evaluating it
> and got the following redbook (draft)recommended: SG24-6671-00 -
> iSeries Application Modernization
>
> It looks quite complete, and *maybe* it could be of help.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Luis Rodriguez
>  
>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > message: 1 date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:59:03 -0600 from: Pete Helgren
> > <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx> subject: [WEB400] HATS - Anybody using it on a
> > regular basis
> >
> > I am saddled with a HATS project and just need to find out if anyone
> > is working regularly with this beast and, if so, what resources they
> > used to get up to speed.
> >
> > I need to fill in a lot of blanks quickly.  Like, within days.  IBM
> > has lots of stuff, most of it is repetitive and has paper-thin depth
> > of content (no pun intended) .  I looked at Redbooks, Redpieces, Red
> > Buttons, Red Skelton, Little Red Riding Hood but no joy....
> >
> > If someone has a  "must have" HATS resource (books, tutorials, online
> > training, article...) that can be quickly and easily obtained, could
> > you point me to it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Pete Helgren
> >
> >
> >
> >    
> ----------------------------
> Luis Rodriguez
> IBM Certified Systems Expert
> eServer i5 iSeries Technical Solutions
>
>