Re: Net.Data

From what I see, a cgi pgm is nothing more than RPG or C w/some api calls.
And RPG & C have been doing credit cards on the 400 for years. Net.Data is
capable of making the same call. And if you want a FREE shopping cart
website (in RPG) go to www.easy400.ibm.it  It's FREE to copy, and in great
detail tells you how it works & how to customize. Mel Rothman & Giovanni
Perotti deserve a medal (& more) for it.
I think WebSphere is a great product. And thankyou to IBM for FINALLY
getting "most" of WebSphere on the 400. But it is not the only method,
especially for those of us who cannot afford the hefty machine to run it on,
and the hefty price for all the advanced features in WebSphere. Not all of
us are trying to be Amazon.Com (but some are, and doing it in a variety of
tools, including RPG & Net.Data). IMHO
Jim Franz

From: "Dave Miller" <dlmiller@jquint.com>
Subject: RE: Net.Data


> Being able to process credit cards requires certification by the financial
> institution that is processing the card transactions.  They are not very
> flexible in how this must be done.  At the very minimum you must have a
> secure server and not allow credit card information to be sent via email.
>
> In addition, the connection to the credit card processor follows specific
> protocols.  Net.Data does not have the capabilities in it to do this.
> Neither does CGI programming by itself.  For the AS/400, IBM has a product
> for ecommerce called payment processing (it is actually a program product
> that you order)  that has all the interfaces built into it and the correct
> protocols.
> BIG SNIP


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