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New Re: It's dead
Since it's screeny (CICS) why not convert it to curses or the like? Or even some direct webform idiom like Acrobat Forms?
-drl
New Ahhh...ahhhh....ahhh.....aychoochtml
New We discussed both
HTML forms SUCK for data entry. You can kludge a lot with Javasacript, but it is never enough. Scrolling grids with embedded logic is just too damn painful. We considered web extensions, such as flash and XUL, but in both cases they are bleeding tech with limited people who know them, and we will not have time for exploration.

We spent about 3 minutes actually thinking we could stop-gap it with a curses (or like toolkit) interface. And then we rethought, since we want to expand this with limited graphical stuff such as scanned images, and again, scrolling grids is a pain in the ass using vanilla character terminals.

So:
#1 - It will need to have a Windows front end that fullfillment employees
can use. These people sometimes speak very little English, have low
literacy, and no computer "skills".
#2 - It needs to perform at least as well as the current CICS system
#3 - It will have to have a SQL back end
#4 - It will have to be modular enough to swap out interfaces, currently
need to talk to MF via FTP JCL, future talk to other systems
#5 - It will need a back processing / batch reporting environment, which
I choose to be Perl / SQL / Linux
New Acrobat forms = javascript
..with a big API for validating data etc.

It's something that should get a try in a real context.
-drl
     Mono? - (broomberg) - (33)
         Why not Delphi in stead? (And Kylix in stead of Mono.) -NT - (CRConrad) - (19)
             It's dead - (broomberg) - (18)
                 Those words may come back to haunt you... ;-) - (admin)
                 Re: It's dead - (deSitter) - (3)
                     Ahhh...ahhhh....ahhh.....aychoochtml -NT - (FuManChu)
                     We discussed both - (broomberg) - (1)
                         Acrobat forms = javascript - (deSitter)
                 That would indicate (to the savvy manager, at least)... - (jb4) - (1)
                     Different levels of noise - (broomberg)
                 The glimpses you provide into corporate decision making - (tuberculosis) - (10)
                     Re: The glimpses you provide into corporate decision making - (deSitter) - (8)
                         I don't think it has to work that way - (tuberculosis) - (7)
                             Huh? - (broomberg) - (6)
                                 Its a lot easier to teach a programmer business than - (tuberculosis) - (5)
                                     "Conventional" is there for a reason - (broomberg) - (4)
                                         I object to your characterization - (tuberculosis) - (3)
                                             No, but you'll take a chance on an - (broomberg) - (2)
                                                 If I were you - (tuberculosis) - (1)
                                                     Done - (broomberg)
                     Sorry - (broomberg)
         Mono will be more... - (folkert) - (6)
             To paraphrase: "Mono. a better .NET than .NET" - (jb4) - (5)
                 You like? Yeah, wow, great - just look how that helped OS/2! -NT - (CRConrad) - (4)
                     What?!? "A better OS2 than OS2"? - (jb4) - (3)
                         Windows 3.1 -> WinOS2 -NT - (deSitter) - (1)
                             OT: Remember MS Sql Server running on OS/2? - (mmoffitt)
                         No, you nitwit, the other way around! - (CRConrad)
         snoball for a front end? - (boxley)
         Re: Mono? - (altmann)
         I'm confused. - (Another Scott) - (3)
             Very observant - (broomberg) - (2)
                 Suggestion - (ben_tilly) - (1)
                     Hmm. - (broomberg)

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