Other options

Some other good options to develop against MAPICS or roll your own:

1) Progen -- solid green screen template programming from BCD and believe it
or not
        a vendor that enhances their product and measures up to my support
standards!
        Good documentation.
2) Websmart -- the CGI/RPG ILE version of web programming from BCD. Only
downside is 
        the templates don't match Progen. A good way to get into web
programming without     much pain. Good documentation.
3) CodeCharge Studio -- currently $279, it can generate web based code
flexibly and    target it at multiple sources, .net, ASP, PHP etc. The
templates are very      as/400ish with built in search, good performance and
separate grid (subfile) and     record formats. Well documented.
4) Microsoft WebMatrix -- Free, drag and drop programming, the stunted
version of      Visual Studio .net but still effective with lots lower
resource and pc         requirements. MS Press has a book on starting web
programming with it. The SQL    generator is fantastic! 

All are suitable for non-programming types that want to get into
programming. 

Regards

Konrad

-----Original Message-----
From: LeLeux@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:LeLeux@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 3:40 PM
To: MAPICS ERP System Discussion
Subject: Re: Looking for an integrated Master Formulation Data Sheet System


You should look at using AVR to develop an interface between your Access 
tables and
MAPICS, or use AVR to replace Access all together.

I would consider using AVR to replace Access, while ODBC will allow you to 
update data
in MAPICS physical files, the security maintenance of ODBC will be a 
headache.

We used to use Access & ODBC, but moved away from it because of security and
speed.  AVR replaced it very nicely, and even allowed us to develop 
web
based solutions.

AVR - free format 'CAVIAR' leverages your RPG knowledge too.

check it out:         www.asna.com
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