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character-based Windows DB2 interface? Recommendations?

DB2 UDB 7.2 WSE
Fixpak 9
Linux Red Hat 7.3

I am in the midst of making some changes to a Sybase
Powerbuilder-based Windows graphical user interface that
uses DB2.

Some requests/complaints I have heard from end users are:
-it takes too much time to perform data entry/maintenance
-they want to keep their hands on the keyboard and not use the mouse
so much

Besides modifying the current interface to try and do this, I thought
that perhaps a charcter-based interface might be appropriate. I have
seen POS character-based interfaces inside a Windows window at
retail stores. (ie BlockBuster I think)

Does anyone have any recommendations about s/w like this?
Is this called a 4GL? It would help a *lot* if Java was in the mix...

Remember: the client is a Windows machine and the server is Linux.

Any thoughts appreciated.

allen
Nov 12 '05 #1
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