At 02:54 PM 1/20/2014, Al Kossow wrote:
And like Will said, IBM protocols aren't going away
any time soon.
That bank teller isn't filling in a form in a web browser,
FIS (of Milwaukee, formerly Metavante, aka M&I or Marshall & Ilsley)
is a bank processor and I believe it was only within the last month
or so that they removed access to the 3270 screen in favor of a
hybrid local app / browser-based app. It speaks over their private lines;
not over the Internet.
- John