Re: 5250 programmer to web programmer

[Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/21/2010 4:48 PM, Paul Holm wrote:

> Can you describe what kind of application(s) you want/need to create.
>
> What kind of applications are your web team creating?
>
> I would assume they are standard data-centric Business applications
> against your AS400 files but I would like to confirm.

I work for a very large professional union.  We serve hundreds of small
locals and a few large ones.  Through the locals, we serve the local
membership, some 800k+.  As a rule, neither the locals nor the
membership are particularly web savvy although that is changing over
time.  We've deployed brochureware as well as semi-static advocacy sort
of material.  We've also deployed several member inquiry applications.

5250-only access is comforting to the executives because it is a more or
less physical restriction to the data.  They like the concept of browser
based access but are very leery of the possible security problems they
imagine will arise.  And so we have a continued push to upgrade the 5250
side of the house, with only a mild amount of interest in the web side.

It's definitely a catch-22, but I think I'm failing my employer if I
don't get us moving down the web path.
  --buck