RE: getting data from the iSeries to a web page

It would depend on what you are comfortable with coding the back end with. If you want to stay with RPG then CGIDEV2. We already have PHP doing this in our shop, so that would be how I would do it. I have it on my to do list to start playing with node.js, so if I had a good block of time to get it done, I would probably go that way.

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From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Booth Martin
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 2:47 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: getting data from the iSeries to a web page

Broad topic, I couldn't narrow it down because I do not understand the
issue(s) well enough. Thank you for your understanding.

OK, Lots of talk on the list about moving from green screen to GUI. I've made
some claims which, upon inspection, I can't back up. I suspect the problem is
me, not the iSeries. Hence this thread.

As a proof-of-concept I wrote a series of regular green screen programs to
read/add/update a file of U.S. presidents and a few details of their lives. If
you are interested, the series can be seen at US Presidents
<http://www.martinvt.com/SQL_-simple-
/SQL_Simple_Subfile/sql_simple_subfile.html>
( iSeries) Its fairly simple and straight forward, designed to be a step beyond
Hello World but no farther.

Then I created a web page using the same data, with the intention of proving
I could do on an iSeries what I can do on any web server. Here is that web
page - US Presidents <http://ventures.martinvt.com/>

So now I have both ends of the problem. Its the middle I do not have.
Currently, the version that runs on the iSeries web server has the data in the
IFS, and I can refresh that data from a web page whenever I ask.

However I can not get the data directly from the iSeries library, which is, to
my mind, the crux of the matter.

I can provide a rundown of ways that don't work but thats boring. Hence this
post: What does work? I would like to go back as far as V5R4 if possible but
at this point I'll follow any path.

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