Re: 5250 to Web Interface / Application Modernization

If you write it that way sure, is tightly coupled. But since the effort is going into creating it in the first place why not have one RPG deal with the user interface and call (use whatever method makes you happy) the programs that have the business logic in them?

Better yet, push referential integrity into the database and simplify everything. Now I understand that last bit may not be practical with some database designs created prior to all the new capabilities but some consideration should be given to database modernization as well as user interface.

Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

On Apr 9, 2019, at 1:48 PM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Call me an purist, but I wouldn't say that CGIDEV2 isolates the logic from the presentation. The standard M.O. is for the RPG code to set values in the display and write records (basically exactly like RPG & DDS screens). I'd call that tightly coupling your logic and your UI.






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From: Raul Jager [mailto:raul@xxxxxxxxxx]
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Subject: Re: 5250 to Web Interface / Application Modernization

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 .


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