Before we explain you all the benefits
of TIMS/E, we want to let you know why we have done business with
the Global 1000 companies. Here is what our customers have told
us what they were looking for when increasing productivity on their
mainframe applications:
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You have decided to stay with the mainframe
S/390 server and want to keep on using your IMS, CICS, TSO
and/or VTAM applications. |
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Maybe it is time to give your applications
a facelift. After all, your end-users do the work, so their
comfort and productivity is important to you, so give them
all the help they need in a way that is clear and to the point,
efficient, and designed explicitly for them (natural language,
expertise). |
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You will certainly want to control and decentralize
the maintenance of this system, close to the end-users. |
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You will want a system with a high level of
integrity so you can use it with all your applications, old
and new. It has to be standard but still adaptable to your
house style. |
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You will want to prevent redundancy in your
texts and reuse the texts to build documentation about your
applications that is consistent with the on-line help information.
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The Solution is TIMS/E ™
TIMS/E solves the end-users on-line help and documentation problem
with state-of-the art techniques and functionality, greatly improving
the productivity of the end-users.
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On-line help can be requested from
each end-user screen for applications under IMS, CICS, TSO,
and VTAM. |
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Pop-up help windows explain screen fields,
give their current contents, and enable a list of values or
codes to be entered. |
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The help information is given in function of
the end-users profile so that information is presented in
the required natural language and at his or her level of experience.
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Your present information can be easily integrated
into the help system without reprogramming. |
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Your present help texts can easily be made
available on the transaction management applications running
under the monitors above. |
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Texts can be structured without redundancy
to produce rapid and consistent documentation for your applications
or any other user-related topic. |
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Powerful control and management functions assist
in building documents and reusing texts without replication.
Documents can easily be restructured to reflect new needs
or end-user requirements. |
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It does not require any changes in the application
programs. |
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The on-line help, prompt, and documentation
functions can be activated with function keys. |
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TIMS/E shuns hard-to-maintain screen-scraping
techniques but opts for monitor-specific information to recognize
application transactions, screens, and fields. |
TIMS/E-Internet™
The mainframe systems are becoming the backbone of the information-age
and the Internet. As there is moving trend toward integrating applications
from legacy systems with the Internet, we have integrated TIMS/E-Internet™.
This makes the TIMS/E™ information available on the Internet
or your Intranet.
TIMS/E-Internet™ will provide your online help solution with
the following major functions:
Information formatting
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TIMS/E-Internet™ enables
you to format all TIMS/E information into HTML format. |
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The formatted data contains internal hypertext
links if the target is part of the document, or external hypertext
links if the target text can be accessed through the common
gateway interface. |
Real-time TIMS/E information access
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TIMS/E-Internet™ allows the
end-users to directly access TIMS/E™ texts, documentation
or help texts from your internet/intranet site. |
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By default, the returned text and menu is
translated into HTML with external links to the texts or to
texts and menus on the lower level in the document. |
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From the displayed text, the user can drill
down the document by selecting the document branches of interest.
The TIMS/E Administrator can provide backward chains the user
needs for browsing up and down. |
Use of bitmaps in the texts
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The TIMS/E Administrator can setup
the texts in a way that bitmaps will be displayed. The same
texts can be used for presentation on different platforms
(Windows RTF, OS/2 IPF). |
Insert HTML tags in TIMS/E texts
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TIMS/E-Internet™ allows the
end-user to access other related web information from the
TIMS/E texts, when working from a web browser. |
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