Re: getting data from the iSeries to a web page

Yes.  Actually, I had your book and it helped me.  Thank you.  It disappeared in one upheaval or another.

The issue, for me, is that I want to approach the data from the web developer's side.  Use a web developer's tool set, not an IBM programmer's tool set. I am suspicious that what I want is a way to provide the data as a web service?  Not sure of the terminology ...  I believe I want to "consume a web service"?   At this point I am over my head so I suspect my terminology is bad.

In other words, I want to be able to say to an RPG programmer "You provide the data this way:" and to the web dudes & dudettes "Here is the data you requested, ready to use:"



On 12/13/2017 3:18 PM, Bradley Stone wrote:

Are you asking how to write an RPG program that reads from a DB and spits
out the information on the web page?

If so, I wrote a few books about that a few years ago... eRPG was the
title. :)

Now I'd prefer to use CGIDEV2 or eRPG SDK. But the basis is still the
same.

Your subfile program that exists now is easily converted into a CGI program
to spit that data out to a web page. I have tons of examples at:
http://erpgsdk.bvstools.com/demo/

Also, www.fieldexit.com has a ton of examples too. They do all sorts of
things from reading from a DB, to using web services to get information.

CGIDEV2 I'm sure has a lot of examples as well.


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