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Hi All,
We are a i5 ISV tool vendor and researching ways to make it easier for our
RPG programmers to participate in web application development. Often our
RPG base have limited web skills but can pickup some HTML fairly easily
Typically in 90% of the cases, our RPG customers don't need to code
anything. They supply SQL and our tool takes care off all the web html
generation. In a few cases, where custom logic is needed, we already have
the ability to call RPG (or CL) and pass in parameters generically using
JT400. After the RPG/CL is called, we read and retrieve and convert to
HTML, the spool file generated by the RPG and display it in a browser. The
spool file ends up looking pretty boring due to a lack of formatting/fonts
although it works. Questions: 1. Can folks embed HTML in spool files?
Good idea/bad idea? If so, this gives them an easy way to produce a custom
page with traditional skills. 2. I'm a bit concerned about performance
having the output written to spool, perhaps there is a better approach?
Perhaps an output parameter where they return HTML that should be
displayed? Better ideas?
If anyone is interested in this as background, here is an 8 minute video
demo of how standard processing works:
http://www.planetjavainc.com/videos/WOW_WAS/WOW_WAS.html
Thanks, Paul
midrange.com
