Re: beginner tutorials & suggestions for writing a simple web page report on an intranet iSeries machine

CGIDEV2 is an ideal tool for this - Paul Tuohy has written a few articles on starting out with this - they should be on the site at http://www.easy400.net

I think Jon Paris has also put some things together.

That site has examples, too.

Asa for the RPG part, CGIDEV2 has a SRVPGM CGISRVPGM2 that has all the functionality.

Henrik Ritzou has written powerExt, which originally was based on CGIDEV2 - information at http://www.powerext.com/

Jon & Susan have a blog article about this and more open source stuff at http://ibmsystemsmag.com/Blogs/iDevelop/Archive/open-source-and-i-not-an-oxymoron/

CGIDEV2 (and powerExt, I believe) both have the idea of externalizing content of web pages into "sections", which are like record formats in display files. You don't need to push every character of a web page out to the server, you can have your CSS and other references in a template file. Very cool!

HTH
Vern


On 10/20/2016 1:23 PM, Booth Martin wrote:

It occurs to me that by now there must be several ways to publish a report on an iSeries web page using iSeries data. I suspect some are good, some are stale, some are not so good, some are complex and others are even more complex. I did this 4 years ago using RPG and some of Scott Klement's code. It works. It is, in my opinion, an awkward and not-useful solution. ( http://www.martinvt.com/Code_Samples/Ice_Cream_Project/ice_cream_project.html )

I would like to go another round with that and am looking for suggestions, hints, examples, and tutorials.

The parameters I wish to set are:

* - uses RDi and/or Eclipse.
* - can use a .css file.
* - is doable for a typical RPG programmer.
* - is on an Intranet (does not rely on connecting to the Internet for
services or code).
* - returns a report with data from a small file in a programmer's
development library.

I am hoping for an open and positive discussion with lots of success stories?