Re: Web to AS/400 Database connectivity

Art,
I've been following this discourse with interest. Forgive me, but it seems
to me your client 'can't see the wood from the trees'. They have a  400,
they have LANSA so it's a no brainer to simply use LANSA for the Web, (low
cost, robust, scalable, simple to maintain and they don't even need to know
what CGI stands for).

Serve from a dedicated 400 to avoid  keeping the back office system up 24x7.
You do the transactional site (yes, including the pages, layout etc) and let
the graphical gurus do the portal pages etc (which can still be served from
the 400) and do you care what they use to create them?

Our RPG programmers (with some LANSA experience) built an interactive site
in a few weeks for a client who was not a LANSA user (but has become one
since!). You might like to look at it: www.firstcalldirect.ie  and take the
MOTOR link. All the drop downs are AS/400 tables, all d/base access is
native DB2 etc. The front page and the buttons were done on a MAC by the
client's graphic guru and we just imported them and merged them with the
LANSA HTML.

Works a dream, went live Apr 22 and has not been off line since, no IPLs,
just database level cleanups and LANSA cleanups.

Who needs JAVA?

Mike Dunnion
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MDC Information Systems
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-----Original Message-----
From: Art Tostaine, Jr. <Art@link400.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: 03 August 2000 02:20
Subject: RE: Web to AS/400 Database connectivity


>Comments in line
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>Art Tostaine, Jr.
>CCA, Inc.
>Jackson, NJ 08527
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>
>Our company is a Lansa Solutions provider.  I am very familiar with Lansa.
Lansa has a bid into
>this company as well.  I could do the simple web stuff for them in Lansa,
but they are considering
>developing a large portal site for a specific industry, much like Yahoo! is
for the masses.  I do
>not have the desire nor the experience to develop such a large web site.
>
>Thanks for your input.
>
>Art Tostaine, Jr.
>CCA, Inc.
>
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