john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown, John) writes: > Most are 3270 oriented. In today's world, that is difficult for end > users to comprehend. So, "webifying" an application so that it can run > on a browser makes it much easier for the typical end user to use. And > that reduces cost by decreasing training costs and increasing > productivity. > > Unfortunately, we did this by "screen scraping" and "automating" our > existing 3270 applications. So the end user browses to a Windows IIS > server, which somehow drives the 3270 application using a combination > of 3270 "screen scraping" and CICS Web Services. We didn't "bite the > bullet" to convert the 3270 portion to Web services. Of course, our > old systems did not separate presentation from the business logic.
some of the webification of 3270 apps have been call-center ... but that required adding some amount of authentication and other security features ... before letting individuals access there own information (and eliminating call-center costs; this isn't webification for moving call-centers to browser-centric ... but web delivery directly to customer/clients). some of the online banking has at times fallen into that category -- 42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
