Originally Posted by
APC225
Yes, it's a real Frankenstein. CCS was an overlay to a keystroke driven system. So it looks like windows but many links just go to these keystroke screens. Some screens propagate your info like the Pay Register which inserts your employee number automatically (after all, you just signed in so it knows who you are) but you go to Reserve Availability and you have to fill in five fields of personal info (that it already knows). Some links are newer like the the Trip Trading functions and are fairly intuitive to use while the Pay Claim link is downright kafkaesque and seems to be so intentionally to discourage its use.
APC,
The CCS "demo system" L-UAL is using now is VERY bad, and other than having the same nice menu at the top is nothing like the L-CAL version. It is simply a hyperlink setup with a multitude of redirects that occasionally take you to an old L-UAL Skynet or Unimatic page if you are lucky and have enough time to wait for it to get there.
Having recently come back from using L-CAL CCS to the old school green flashing Unimatic cursor with countless Cold War coded commands, and dare I forget the beloved dot-matrix printers - I will gladly take CCS
Thanks again for posting the links!
V/R,
SP