Re: Idea for a small project using the web

Well, as has been said before, there are hundreds of ways you could go,
involving many platforms/languages. I have remained in the very shallow end
of web development, but there is one thing I notice about what you are
attempting. It sounds like the data is taking a one-way path (i.e. no
interactivity with the web page).

If you simply want to send data to a web page, then you can use RPG to build
an IFS file that contains the HTML (i.e. The web page) with the figures into
a folder that is served up by your web server. I have done this with data
that is updated every half hour regarding financial statistics, and the code
uses simple data structures that make up HTML tag structures. This might be
a good place to start. Using HTML this way makes it similar to printing a
report, or outputting to a subfile.

Interactivity is where all of the options that others here have mentioned
really comes in to play. Embedded anchors with parms that repeatedly call
the same program, Webfacing conversions, heck, even home-grown java applets
can be used. I would reccommend starting small.

On 9/22/05, steema@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <steema@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> HI
> I would like to display information to a web page. The users of this web
> page would be my department. I would report on static and dynamic info.
> The bulk would come from an RPG or Cobol program. Let us say certain
> application statistics regarding the activity of each section of the
> warehouses, how many pieces moved out. A small analysis of the various
> shipping files, the program would read and find critical dates and
> timestamps, and put into a file, to go to the web.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
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