
VB Front-End for 3270 Apps
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>Is anyone out there currently using VB to put a GUI onto a
>mainframe text-based application? I am having some success using a
>product called QuickApp from DCA, but am looking for other people to
>swap ideas with. Are there any other reasonably high-level comm
>libraries available that might also do the job?
We are not doing exactly this, but something else, that might interest you.
If your mainframe text-based application is not complex, and if the
World-Wide Web (i.e. Mosaic) is an acceptable frontend, you might
look at http://www.inf.ethz.ch/department/IS/ea/tsp/tsp.html
Basically, we are putting an intermediary between an information-system
with a text-based user-interface and any Web-browser, so that browser can
access the text-based information system.
Of course, the provider of the text-based information system has to describe
his interface.
Louis Perrochon
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Institut fuer Informationssysteme, ETH Zurich, Switzerland ++41 1 632 7282
URL: http//www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/perrocho/louis.html