Re: 400 & RPG to the Net

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Carl Galgano mentioned net.data, and I think this is a great thing. You can
interface with SQL, as well as native programs, as I recall. It generates
HTML code on the fly, so it's sort of like CGI without some of the pain. If
you know REXX, you can embed that code directly. You end up with a
combination of HTML and net.data code in a text file. I found that a simple
HTML editor, even Netscape or Word or FrontPage, can give you the skeleton
into which you put the net.data script.

Check out <http://www.iseries.ibm.com/software/netdata/>. There's a little
paper comparing it to Websphere at
<http://www.iseries.ibm.com/software/netdata/news/ndandws.htm>

At 02:19 PM 4/23/02 -0500, you wrote:




>I have been given the task to "get on the Internet now".
>We have a 720 at V4R4 and going to V5 this year at some point.
>All applications are written in RPG and home grown.
>
>I have a programming staff of 1 junior pgmr and 1 beginner pgmr plus
>myself.,1 network guy and 2 operators.
>
>We would like to start with inquiry and then be able to allow our agency
>force to quote/app direct to our 400.
>In other words live real time data access to our 400 database files. Read
>and write.
>
>I have investigated many ways to do this. I have been given a modest budget
>to accomplish this.
>Security from management's side is not an issue until it happens. I believe
>the opposite and want to be smart.
>
>I am toying with putting 400 on Internet with a Sonic Wall box as my
>firewall on network.
>Either develop applications with E-RPG or use some product that transforms
>RPG into GUI code as you develop
>so it can be used either green screen (in house) or GUI (net).
>
>I do not want to maintain same program 2X. (1 in house 1 on net).
>
>IBM came in a gave us a proposal to add a 170 as an Internet box.
>Management immediately threw this out
>as too costly.
>
>Has anyone had any experience with these so called Internet tools and if so
>good or bad idea?
>
>
>
>
>
>Karl Lauritzen Jr.
>National Lloyds Insurance
>American Summit Insurance
>*klauritzen@natlloyds.com
>*klauritzen@american-summit.com
>
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