5.1 What can I use the aXes Terminal Server Activities for?
You can use these activities to allow your application to interact with any 5250 application, whether or not you have source code or specifications for the 5250 application. You only need to know how to operate the application as a 5250 terminal operator would.
The following describes one example scenario that might be solved with a LANSA Composer solution that employs the aXes terminal server activities.
To receive and enter sales orders electronically …
When your ERP application was developed and implemented, all sales orders were received by telephone operators who entered the details at 5250 screens.
Now, many of your customers wish to submit their sales orders electronically in XML format. Unfortunately, details of the internals of the ERP application for the order entry screens are not available.
In order to satisfy the customer requirement without replacing the ERP application, you can elect to implement a LANSA Composer solution that can receive the sales order XML files, extract the details and use the aXes terminal service activities to drive the 5250 screens of the ERP order entry function.