On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 16:10 -0400, George Henke wrote: > I had a client in 2010 that used LegaSuite very successfully, but it was > not really screen-scraping
Well it is really no-fooling screen scraping here, with all the attendant change control issues. > 1 click of the mouse button triggered about 10 or 12 CICS > transactions, tasks, under the covers. Yes, it can devolve into this if you choose to e.g. present a multipage screen map as a scrollable list. We do some of that (but not a lot). > Quite a price to pay just so customer service does not have to touch > type. Perhaps. But usability has some value, and some of our green screens are complex. The ability to present some coded fields as pull-downs and integrate with the desktop (SQL-server queries, mail, other stuff) has been well received. > Screen-scaping is taboo where I am now. Keeping the green-screen maps in sync with the LegaSuite panel collection is an administrative problem that we haven't solved yet. Error recovery seems to be much less of an issue than it was in days of yore. I once wrote a EHLLAPI library subset for a boutique 3270 emulator board, and dealing with a recalcitrant SPX line that stretched halfway across the country was a painful exercise. -- David Andrews A. Duda & Sons, Inc. [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
