Re: RPG Generator's

The leading development environment for the AS/400 is LANSA.  LANSA
allows you to develop and maintain applications much more quickly and
easily than RPG.  lansa generateS RPG.  LANSA also generates: C, C++,
HTML, XML, etc.  It also allows you to deploy these applications with 4
interfaces: 

5250 (Green Screen)
WIndows 
Web Browser
XML/Java Client

For a detailed
discussion with someone who has been both a long time AS/400, RPG
developer in the manufacturing/disrtibution segment, and has worked
extensively with LANSA, I suggest you each contact: 

Kevin Jinks   
Vice President
Dynax Industries
6800 Jericho Turnpike   
Suite 204w
Syosset, NY    11791-4401
Phone 1:516-932-9080  Ext:45
FAX 516-932-3152
email: kjinks@dynax.com

LANSA's web site is 
http://www.lansa.com 




LANSA PRODUCT OVERVIEW: 
LANSA is the premier application development environment for 
business developers.  The same LANSA product can be tailored
to your choice of development and deployment platform. 

Enjoy the LANSA competitive advantage if you have a standalone
 AS/400 environment or mixed AS/400, Windows, UNIX, Java
 and Internet environments. 

LANSA is  the AS/400 community's tool of choice for both 
host-based, web and client/server applications. 

LANSA simplifies the complexity of new technologies so your developers
can focus on your business goals. LANSA’s highly
productive 4GL generates high-performance, native compiled code. Any
application is possible because LANSA combines the
flexibility of a 3GL with the power of a 4GL. You write fewer lines of
code and have fewer lines to maintain. The same LANSA
 source code runs on multiple platforms and multiple databases.

Modern development is a partnership between business and development
staff. LANSA centralizes data models and business
 rules in the Object Repository, giving development managers strategic
control. Standard business components give your business managers the
flexibility to rapidly react. Business departments can query and report
with ease or even build Visual Basic or Java extensions using centrally
managed LANSA components.

LANSA gives development managers strategic control, and business
managers tactical flexibility. 

****LANSA for the AS/400: The premier AS/400 development environment.
Includes a data modeler, Object Repository, powerful 4GL, programmable
templates, AS/400 screen and report painter, Windows-based end user
query, reporting and charting, and change management facilities.

**LANSA for the Web: Mission Critical Transactions for the Internet -
easily, safely and consistently. Options include HTML, XML and Java. You
can easily build Internet or Intranet applications that securely access
and update AS/400 data. LANSA
 generates industry standard graphical HTML, JavaScript, CGI, XML and
Java from pre-defined, programmable templates. For
 enhanced security and high performance, single or multi-tiered AS/400s
are supported - no source code changes required.

**LANSA for Windows: Portable development using Windows 95 or Windows
NT. Voted number one PC Development
 environment by readers of Midrange Systems. You can deploy multi-tier
client/server applications to flexible combinations of  AS/400, Windows
3.X, Windows 95/98, Windows NT, AIX, Digital Unix, or HP-UX from a
single set of LANSA source code.
 Supported databases include DB2 family, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server,
or any ODBC-compliant database. Multi-tier applications
inherit common business rules from LANSA’s Object Repository. VISUAL
LANSA supports component-based development and
the same object oriented features as Java but with a far shorter
learning curve.


**LANSA/Client: Windows-based graphical query, chart and reporting tool.
LANSA’s Object Repository gives your Windows
 users powerful data analysis with full security. Easy data access
without programming.


**LANSA Open for Windows and Java: Intelligent client/server middleware.
You can transform Java, Visual Basic, PowerBuilder,
 Delphi, or Lotus Notes/Domino into scalable enterprise-wide development
environments. LANSA’s fast middleware gives your
applications rapid data access to Server logic and data, including
portable LANSA applications. LANSA’s portable Object
   Repository includes stored procedures and triggers to centralize your
business rules so you can deploy the same scaleable application to your
choice of server. 



**NewLook: Dynamic GUI generation without double maintenance. You can
easily extend your existing AS/400 applications. Your
 users can dynamically add new forms and macros to extend and integrate
their AS/400 applications, as their business requires, without
traditional programming or scripting. 

Jeff_Klipa/Harvard@harvardind.com wrote:
> 
> I just did a demo last Friday of OS Solutions International, Inc's - ShowMe
> product...
> (I demoed it over the phone with Pete Massiello - 203-744-7854)
> It was incredibly fast and easy to use for creating inquiry and report
> programs...
> We did not do anything terribly complex but the tool seemed to be very
> flexible and functional...
> We also did not create any maintenance programs (because it cannot do that)
> but you could manually convert one of their inquiry programs fairly easily
> into a maintenance program...
> 
> I looked at the source that the package generated and it is very clean and
> well documented, modularized code that is easy to read and customize...
> NOT ILE either...  Regular RPG...
> 
> Here is the site...  http://osdirector.com
> 
> This is the only 4GL I've seen in quite some time...  I'm sure there are
> others out there but you should consider this one in my opinion...  We have
> not made a purchase decision on this one yet, but if it were up to me alone
> I'd write the check today...
> 
> I do not own this product.  I do not have any vested interest in this
> company or its products and I was not compensated for any statements I made
> above...
> 
> Good luck...
> 
> "Neil Thursby" <neil.thursby@whessoe-vapour.com> on 07/24/2000 10:17:35 AM
> 
> Please respond to JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com
> 
> 
> 
>   To:          JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com
> 
>   cc:          (bcc: Jeff Klipa/Harvard)
> 
> 
> 
>   Subject      RPG Generator's
>   :
> 
> 
> Hi,
> Not a pure-JBA question, but wonder if anyone can help me please?
> I'm interested in finding a product which facilitates rapid generation of
> RPG code.  Has anyone used anything like this before?
> Many thanks in advance,
> Neil.
> 
> Whessoe Vapour Control Limited
> Tel 44 (0)1325 301100
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