RE: CGI programming

[Ken Slaugh <ken.slaugh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't believe there is such a thing as CGI programming in RPG.

When I went to a nationally televised AS/400 Internet enablement course,
RPG was used with a number of API calls to produce dynamic web pages.
RPG IS NOT DYNAMIC. In theory, there is no limit to the length of a web
page. The RPG language and the native OS/400 database has limits all
over it. Try using unlimited length variable length strings, then pass
them to other programs in your application. This is not for the weak.
The RPG authors at IBM  would definitely disagree with me. They just
seem not to accept any alternatives. If they would look over the
technology fench and listened to their neighbors, they probably would
find other practical solutions.

I've been an RPG programmer for 20 years and a Visual Basic programmer
for 5 or so. Because of VB language structure, my RPG skills have
improved. I still call myself an AS/400 RPG programmer, but I'm not
planning to use it to create web pages. Instead I use RPG to validate,
create, summarize and extract information. That's what it's best at.

Ken Slaugh
Senior Programmer/System Analyst
AS/400 Professional Network Administrator/MSE
Specialist - Client Access/400
Chouinard & Myhre, Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vishnu Vardhan A [SMTP:Vishnu.A@bflsoftware.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 9:28 PM
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> Subject:      CGI programming
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> 
> Can anyone explain what is CGI programming in RPG?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Vishnu Vardhan A
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