Ideas for which GUI or UI, PHP or What.. (Was: IBM i in the cloud (was social media))

[Alan <steelville@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > From: Kelly Cookson  I get my AARP card this coming February.
> American Association of RPG Programmers?-Nathan



AARP? No, Association of Awesome RPG Programmers... I'm going with AMAC, 
or Generation America, or the United Seniors Association. I'm learning 
PHP, plan to go the whole gamut... Learning helps keep your mind sharp.. 
Now if I can just pull away from the screen and take more walks..

My shop has 70 percent old style Cobol (new style means being able to 
use CALL PROCEDURE haha). Two or three of the ones with the best 
business knowledge (from seniority) will be kind of ambivalent to 
learning new stuff. My sort-of-coach in the business end (reviews code 
for gotchas in the code base) said most of the guys didn't know what 
%parm was. I had to take it out. I adopt to shop standards so I took it 
out, although I think they can learn in one minute what it means if they 
came across it.

The company was considering alternatives to the present green-screen 
old-code based application they have for our part of company support. 
One was to change what we have, another was a 3rd party application that 
used JWalk. But then came a change in CIOs and other things and that was 
the end of that 3rd party.

It's all on hold though, and I think they'll come back at some point. I 
would like ammunition or comments one way or the other, in case they ask 
this sort-of new guy (veteran RPGLE programmer..)

Another team at the company has used JWalk to front-end, but it causes 
everybody to moan and groan and there was a bit of gnashing of teeth 
when we thought we might move in that direction...

Comments?

--Alan