Mike Schwab observes: >Actually, their product runs on the mainframe, and translates >TN3270E data setreams to HTML Web pages. So any built in web >browser accesses a remote mainframe with this product installed >on the mainframe.
Many products do, including a popular product produced by my employer. John McKown remarks: >Which puts the CPU burden on the mainframe (3270->HTML). And on >the smartphone, depending on how complicated the HTML must be to >render vs. tn3270. Well, yes. But chances are excellent the debate about end user interface on the smartphone has been settled already, and (except perhaps for system programmers and operators) a traditional 3270-style user interface depending on a special installable smartphone client isn't going to fly. It's not a very good match for most (or all) smartphones anyway. Mobile-tailored Web user interfaces are a much better (and more useful) fit for the vast majority of users, never mind the networking issues. In terms of CPU burden, sure, there's CPU burden incurred *somewhere*, and CPU burden is never free anywhere. My employer -- the one that I do not speak for -- has neatly solved that financial problem at least in this particular mainframe use case and within its sphere. - - - - - Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise Architect STG Value Creation & Complex Deals Team IBM Growth Markets (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
