RE: Porting data to a web page

Yes, and the CGILIB in RPG xTools does what CGIDEV2 does and it's supported.
But it does require an xTools license. The entire RPGIV.com website is
written with it, and was previously written with CGIDEV2. It took about two
hours to convert every CGI program to CGILIB from CGIDEV2. Mostly it only
requires procedure name changes and not syntax changes.

Having said that, if CGIDEV2 is working for you is "support" really an
issue? 

-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
If everything is under control, you are going too slow.
- Mario Andretti

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Raul A. Jager W.
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 7:11 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Porting data to a web page

Your request seems just rigth for NetData.  But NetData hasn't been 
improved lately, and I heard rumors about repalcing it.

I use CGIDEV2 now, for very simple querys is more complicated than 
NetData, but when the request becomes more complex it escalates much 
better.  No tool is forever, Giovanni B. Perotti leaves IBM, but he 
promised to continue support.

Douglas W. Palme wrote:

>To be a bit more specific, what we want to do is display an html page with 
>update information, IE: load information on a state by state basis; IE: how

>many loads are available in that state.
>
>If it was just static itself and never changed, I could just create it
using 
>notepad, but since it has to include some information from a LF that won't 
>work.
>
>If you think the example you have will do that I would love to see it....at

>least that will get me started in the right direction......
>
>Douglas
>
>
>On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:55:46 -0700, Tony Carolla wrote
>  
>
>>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 
>>.
>>
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