Re: Virtual Terminal(VT) API

The WSG is not prety, but is a fast way to do it.  You can put HTML in
the DDS, and it is ignored if the request does not come from the WEB.  I
use Net.Data for querys, but it requires to do the logic over.

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Venkatraman Iyer wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> We are in the process to enable AS/400 applications (RPG/400 Programs) for
> the web.
> We want to use the  existing applications (for their business logic) and
> change only presentation layer to web so that we can access the same
> information from browser.
> 
> E.g. we have Item Inquiry program on as/400. It takes Item Number as input
> and display Item Description (and few additional fields). We want to do the
> same from the browser (building our logic around existing program).
> 
> Solution : At present we have changed our RPG program to check for the
> request (whether it is from web or AS/400 Terminal). We have one flag say
> with value "W" to represent request is from the web.
> 
> If the request is from the Web, we are writing the information retrieved to
> user space (instead of display files), java programs are accessing user
> space to retrieve and format the information for web.
> 
> We are not happy with this solution since it require change in existing
> application and found out that there is something called "VT (Virtual
> Terminal) API" which will avoid changing the existing applications.
> and better solution.
> 
> We couldn't figure out how to make use of it??
> 
> Any suggestions/Documentation/Help..???
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Venkat.

-- 
  Raul A. Jager W.
Asuncion - Paraguay
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