| Introduction |
There have been many different approaches to
transforming, converting, re-engineering, or emulating both BMS or MFS
functionality to run on non-mainframe platforms. Some technologies were
available and provided minimum conversion of certain screen elements that could
then be imported into a "Forms" processing program.
Many of these
approaches did not retain the screen positioning, field names or field
attributes, it was the programmers task to complete the conversion.
Another early effort at porting mainframe screens was called "screen scraping".
This technique used the generated 3270 byte stream information to display an
HTML page and had the following advantages.
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No conversion required. |
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Could be done quickly. |
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It also had the following disadvantages.
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In most environments the screen conversions took place at
execution time. |
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Continued
proliferation of mainframe methods into non-mainframe environments. |
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Requires the creation and
access to the 3270 byte-stream members. |
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Limited capacity for
change.
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What is needed is a simple capability that converts BMS
or MFS screens to native HTML pages. SimoVIEW provides this capability
while retaining the various data element names and positions on the HTML page.
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| Features |
SimoVIEW for BMS provides for the quick
conversion of BMS screens to HTML pages and is supported for Windows/98 and
Windows/NT. SimoVIEW provides the following capabilities.
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Support for the standard 24x80 character screens
maintaining the original field locations on the screen. |
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Support for the 3270, model 5 screens maintaining the
original field locations on the screen. |
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Support for multiple maps
within a mapset. |
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Support for remapping
function keys to submit buttons. |
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Support for JAVA Scripting
to do functions such as cursor positioning. |
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Support for externally
defining the foreground and background colors. |
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Support for externally
defining font types and size. |
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Support for
externally defining header and footer information for a screen. This is useful
for adding a company logo or other information to the top or bottom of a
screen. |
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Support for embedded 370
assembler statements. |
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Support for filtering HTML
tags from mainframe screen text. |
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| Additional
Information |
SimoTime has the people and technology to assist in this
effort. For more information about how we can help you simply send an e-mail
note to
helpdesk@simotime.com or give us a
call. Also, take a moment to visit our web site at
http://www.simotime.com. |
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