HATS and WebFacing

[Alexei Baranov <ABaranov@xxxxxx>]

Dear all,

One of our clients is going to move "legacy" application to the web interface, with minimal changes in existing RPG applications, so it will be WebFacing and HATS used. Our application is quite big, it has several thousand DDS, and some modules use DSM. We can convert DDS to the web project using WebFacing, and setup HATS transformations, but there are two problems.

1. "Legacy" application continues to evolve, so we often make changes to it. Changes are supplied as patches that include only modified programs and DSPFs. Patches can be installed in environments with different levels of the other software, that is, with different versions of PGMs and DSPFs. So when we are supplying patch, we don't know where it will be installed

Question 1 - Is it possible to create similar "patches" to WebFacing/HATS ear? We'd like to supply some kind of patch that will modify ear, instead of supplying whole ear.

2. Application contains some programs that use DSM. Now we are looking for a most efficient way how to adopt these modules to web interface.

Question 2 - is anyone familiar with the 5250w protocol? How it differs from the standard 5250? I suppose it has some web-facing related features, and I'd like to know is it possible to use them somehow.

Regards,
Alexei