RE: Working towards e-commerce.

Hi,

We're on 4.05 CD and haven't done much w/ e-Commerce yet... But one of the
paths I started to explore was utilizing some of the web options that are
free w/ most AS/400s (4.5 and above), i.e.,  Web Facing, iWA, Host
Publisher, Net.Data, and WebSphere.  I went to a free seminar on these tools
last year (sponsored by Foresight).  It amazed me on how much you could do
quickly w/ your existing applications without touching the RPG code.
According to the speaker, w/ Web Facing, you can have web pages created on
the fly then customize then later, as needed...  Although these tools are
free, your IS staff would need to be trained in them along w/ Java.  Food
for thought.            

DeeDee Virgei
Nelson Stud Welding, Inc.
7900 West Ridge Rd
Elyria, OH 44036

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Jenny Carr [mailto:jgcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent:   Tuesday, March 04, 2003 9:56 AM
To:     BPCS-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:        Working towards e-commerce.

Our organization is in the process of moving towards e-commerce which I know
can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people.
Ultimately, our goal is to improve communications with our customers.  We
can crawl into this by running queries/reports on the AS/400 and then
e-mailing them to customers or posting to a website via ftp.  In the latter
case, I'm not sure of the best way to limit specific customers to seeing
just their orders.  Any suggestions?

In the longer term, we are exploring LANSA's Smartweb for BPCS.  We are on
the ancient version of 3.1 with Nexgen Y2K mods.  Has anybody out there had
much experience in using LANSA?  Any comments or suggestions would be
greatly appreciated.  TIA.

Jenny 
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