Re: Porting data to a web page

Hello Doug

On 6/29/05, Douglas W. Palme <dpalme@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> If anyone has any decent websites or online tutorials that can assist me
> with porting some data to a webpage I would appreciate it if you would 
> share
> it with me, so far what I have found on IBM's site is either 1. not really
> applicable, or 2. calls for the WDS advanced client which we do not have.
> 
> We will be running the iSeries web server for this project.



It really depends on what you want to do. Outputting non-interactive web 
pages to the IFS can be done with straight RPG. You can basically build the 
HTML specs using data structures, which usually contain one or more <TABLE> 
defs, and write them to an IFS file. I have a somewhat generic example I can 
send you if this is your aim. 

If you are looking to interact with users, you can use the CGIDEV2 library. 
This would allow interacting with a user through a web browser. Details, and 
the library can be found at http://www-922.ibm.com/en . 

Also, if you want to take existing RPG programs that use display files, and 
have them show up in a web browser window, without re-coding anything, there 
is the webfacing tool. It allows you to generate java server pages for your 
display files, and it will call your program and interact with the web 
browser so that your program thinks it is a display file. Details on this 
can be found at 
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/wdt400/about/webfacing.html .