RE: Beginning web development

I can not answer all of your questions.

One thing you may wish to look at is web facing.  I am not sure if the web
facing tools work on COBOL programs as the do on RPG programs.  From my
limit experience, I can tell you that setting up the web sphere server on
v5r1 has been nothing but a exercise of my patience.  Seems that everytime
we turn around, we need a new PTF, and the installation of PTF and the web
sphere server have to be done in a certain order.  I am told that once we
get it running... web facing is "easy".  Not to slam IBM, but you can tell,
IBM's focus is now on services.

As far as authorizing users, you do not need to set up 30000 user profiles
on your AS400.  The web security can be handled using AS400 access lists.
An access list controls access to web applications, with out the need for a
profile.  You can automate the setup of an access list user by allowing the
user to create an account on the website and then use the API to add the
user to the access list.  Someone on this list supplied some code to do this
and we use the external call provision in net.data to execute the adding of
the user to the access list.

HTH,
cjg


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Hi all,

We are moving from v4r4 to v5r1 and want to convert/develop a part of the
system for web access. We are a COBOL/400 shop. We want to use WebSphere for
the development. We have an NT box in front of the AS/400. We were also
planning on using the LPAR capability to separate the part accessed via the
web from the rest of the AS/400 data files.

My question is pretty basic and shows my ignorance. I would really
appreciate it if someone could tell us what we could start learning (Java,
ASP, stored procedures or things like that) and where we can get some info
on web development using websphere (books, website, etc). Can we use COBOL
for the development ?

Also, if anyone can share some info on how to set up security for about
30,000 web users. I assume it is not a good idea to create so many signons
on the 400.

We don't want to spend too much money and we want our people to learn
whatever is needed to develop the software in-house. If anyone can think of
anything else we should know before we embark on this new task, I would
appreciate it if they could share it with us.

Thank you in advance.
Sushama
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