RE: Open Access for RPG -- RPG400-L

Watched the Profound Logic webinar on how they product that uses ROA works. Was very impressed. If an organization wanted to they could really separate the "business logic programmer" from the "web designer" roles. Hire a programmer how knows RPG and the database and the business to do the code. Hire a designer who understands UIs and how people interact with them to present the data and make it "look pretty" and fit the device it will be used on.

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Aaron Bartell
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 8:14 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Open Access for RPG

Yep, that would be a perfect example of using ROA. You should ping ProData
and ask them if they have plans to do that for their product that currently
allows you to connect to remote DB's - though right now without ROA as I
understand it.

Thanks Jon for posting that link. Will be interesting to see how well ROA
takes off in the non-ISV space. I think the more people can become
comfortable with the approach, the more likely they are to test the waters.
Keep the scenario based tutorials coming!

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Mike Cunningham <mike.cunningham@xxxxxxx>wrote:

Could an OA handler be written to allow RPG to access a remote, non DB2,
database as if it were a local DB2 table? I would create a local DB2 file
that was a duplicate structure of the remote table so the compiler knew what
data was in the file. Then at run time the handler would redirect the I/O
requests to the remote database. That would be a very nice handler for IBM
to provide with this new technology. Or maybe the vendors who sell tools to
access other databases from RPG would add this to their suite of products
(hint hint)

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 4:31 PM
To: Rpg400 Rpg400-L
Subject: Open Access for RPG

For those of you who haven't had a chance yet to look at what can be
done with RPG's Open Access in areas other than GUI I/O we just
published our first article on the topic - a simple handler that works
with IFS files. You can find it here:
http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/OAR_handlers/33511p1.aspx

Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

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