RE: Open Access to be generally available as part of the RPG compiler

Henrik,


<Vendor>
I can say for sure that the company I work for, Profound Logic, has fully embraced Open Access and our customers love it.

As for your previous statement that mobile and web apps can't be made without learning "new tricks", that is where vendors like ours come in. Our product allows applications to be built with no knowledge of HTML, Javascript, and CSS using a drag and drop Visual Designer. These new web screens are accessed in RPG using familiar opcodes in RPG such as read, write, and exfmt thanks to open access. This allows customers to use an interface they are intimately familiar with and also allows the display layer to be replaced without changes to the original RPG logic.

</Vendor>

Sorry David, I normally don't respond as a vendor, but he asked. :)

Brian May
IBM i Modernization Specialist
Profound Logic Software, Inc.
http://www.profoundlogic.com
937-439-7925 Phone
877-224-7768 Toll Free

              



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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Henrik Rützou
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 3:22 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Open Access to be generally available as part of the RPG compiler

Jon

RPG OA has been around for 2 years - please state the major vendors that support the technology and who dosn't?


On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jon

what do you suggest, that CGIDEV2, HTTPAPI, FTPAPI or any other
project says "YEU YEU" and bend for RPG OA?

Are you "Napolion" ?


On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

On Feb 1, 2012, at 3:26 PM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I see this as a fully useful methodology, and a way to extend the
life and use of the language. Others don't agree with me, so we'll
have to agree to disagree.

I'm 100% with Vern here. When the RPG Queen Barbara Morris tell me
that in her own programming she uses her IFS OA handler rather than
mess around with the IFS APIs every time, then I know there is more
utility in OA than you are giving it credit for.

Sadly a lot of the people who could be providing really great
handlers that would benefit many "ordinary" RPGers seem to have this
perspective. I confess to having been in that camp myself some years
ago. I now firmly believe that we won't move the masses forward
unless we make the initial steps easier.

If they were going to accept the Marie Antoinette "Let them use APIs"
doctrine then I'd love to hear why they haven't done so in their thousands.
The fact that they haven't points to the obvious - we needed another
approach. OA gives us that opportunity.

Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com




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