Re: 5250 to Web Interface / Application Modernization

Just to add an another alternative: What about the open source project
ILEastic. It is a ILE application server for building microservices and/or
giving straight up RPG programs a HTTP interface - A programable
applicationserver as an API in your own application.

https://github.com/sitemule/ILEastic

Apache + CGI still works fine, however other design paradigms are emerging
that makes web applications much more agile and scalable that even fits
into new features on IBM i like NGINX.

Also take a look what's going on in the MONO project - now we can run .NET
on our platform.

It is an exiting new future we are looking into

On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 10:16 PM Raul Jager <raul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Apache on IBM i works great, adding an extra server in between gives no
benefit.

Using a tool like CGIDEV2 you isolate the program logic from the
presentation, a web designer can do the "pretty thing" without any
knowledge of RPG and you can do the logic in RPG whit just a very basic
knowledge of HTML .

On 4/9/19 2:46 PM, Jack Woehr wrote:

On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 12:43 PM Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

I feel that the workstation record-write, record-read paradigm is not
fitting for web interfaces.

The handwriting is on the wall. Make your IBM i a behind-the-firewall Db2
black box that serves up data requests via Node.js or something to a
front-end web server running on Linux.

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