RE: Webfacing - Where to run the HLL programs?

Couple of clarifications inline.

Scott Mildenberger

--- Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Just to clarify, WebFacing won't change the way the
> RPG program accesses the
> data, so if RPG opens a file and does a CHAIN, the
> RPG and file need to be
> on the same machine.  You know this already because
> of your next sentence,
> but some readers may not.

RPG can use DDM files to access data on another
machine without any changes to the programs.


> 
> DATA takes the interactive hit.  That is, the
> machine the RPG will be
> running on.  But the new WebFacing in WDSc 5.0 does
> not use interactive
> capacity.  This may even be true of 4.0 but I can't
> recall for certain.
> 

The only way for WebFacing to not use interactive is
on the newer iSeries machines introduced a couple of
months ago.  Any other existing machine will still use
interactive for WebFacing.




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