Re: Web to AS/400 Database connectivity

[nina jones <ddi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have a new customer who we are developing an AS/400 application for.  He 
>has grand plans for a web
> site that will interact with the data on the 400.  He is not automatically 
>considering serving the
> web pages from the 400.  He has considered buying another AS/400 to serve the 
>pages using WebSphere
> Commerce Suite, but that is not definite.
> 
> Since I am the developer for the AS/400 application, I have to answer 
>questions from web companies
> who are trying to make proposals to my customer.
> 
> One of the questions that I can't answer so well is how will the web 
>developers get data from the
> AS/400.  Some know of the 400, others don't.  Most know it runs DB/2.
> 
> The web developers have to be able to enter data into our system.  For 
>instance, they will do all of
> the programming to accept an order, then they will have to create an order 
>and pick ticket on my
> system.  They will have to receive an order# back from the 400.  They will 
>also have to get data
> from the 400 to show order status, etc.
> 
> How should I tell them to connect?


we do web development, using the asna platform.  the actual web serving
is done using a p/c with windows iis and the as/400 is a database
server.  asna has a product, datagate, that serves the data from the
as/400 to the p/c.  avr (asna visual rpg) code is used on the p/c along
with active server pages to process the web pages. 

asna has some more information on how the process works, you can check
out asna's web page at http://www.asna.com 

nj
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