RE: Who's doing Web work on iSeries? (was: ASP on AS/400 Apache)

This is actually work done by Craig Pelike with some (ok maybe few)
modifications by myself but it's merely a possibility...

http://12.24.177.228/cgi-bin/db2www/ndsubfile.ndm/input

This is STANDARD net-data reading an SQL request - but I'm sure it can
be simulated with RPG Called routines, and Net.Data table support...

I think Joel hit the head on the nail - the programming is just
different.  We'd not put 100 fields to fill out on one screen 640x480
screen.  But - here's things I've seen that've been lost!

1) My wife ordered some Tupperware online - she's NOT a computer person.
Whereas you and I know to click on images when the mouse turns into a
finger, she was LOST - I observed her and learned how LITTLE intuitive
stuff is really on these pages.  No buttons that say "More Info" - it
seems stupid to you and I - but if people can't figure it out from a
glance, we're not doing our jobs right.  The buttons must be clear -
"Add to Cart" "More Info"  etc... buttons are ugly - but they work.
2) Help - you can have some INCREDIBLE person using WORD as an editor
create a help page.  When someone "clicks" on it, it grabs it out of the
IFS...

How will the user want to use the program.  How will it respond to them.
That sort of touchie feelie stuff.

Webfacing is AN answer.



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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Cozzi (RPGIV) [mailto:cozzi@rpgiv.com]
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 4:12 PM
To: web400@midrange.com
Subject: RE: [WEB400] Who's doing Web work on iSeries? (was: ASP on
AS/400 Apache)

I HTML doesn't support subfiles and neither does CGI. So if you
interpreted my statements to mean that we had circumvented this issue,
that was not accurate.

What I was implying was that using CGI and HTML end uses have a
different expectation level than what is created by using the current
Webfacing tool.
If a pop up window is displayed, containing a subfile, and you scroll
that subfile... argh!

That's all.

Bob Cozzi
cozzi@rpgiv.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-admin@midrange.com [mailto:web400-admin@midrange.com] On
Behalf
> Of Joe Pluta
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 10:15 AM
> To: web400@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: [WEB400] Who's doing Web work on iSeries? (was: ASP on
AS/400
> Apache)
>
> > From: Bob Cozzi (RPGIV)
> >
> > Sorry, but I wasn't following your thread. I suppose it has
something to
> > do with your *INKx indicators? I don't know?
>
> Our PSC400 product basically does what WebFacing does, but it does it
by
> modifying the source code to replace the I/O opcodes with calls to an
API.
> Because of this, the converted programs run in batch, and thereby
don't
> contribute to the interactive CPW load.  Our interface is JavaServer
Pages,
> and so you can greatly customize the look and feel of your pages, but
the
> basic UI is HTML.
>
> You mentioned that subfiles in HTML have an unacceptable flicker.  We
see
> such a flicked going between any two pages, but we've gotten around
that
> psychologically with a consistent background and banner, as well as
> subsecond response time.  That seems to be enough, but I was intrigued
by
> your statement that seemed to imply you had circumvented this issue
using
> CGI.
>
> I was just wondering how you had managed to do that.
>
> Joe Pluta
> www.plutabrothers.com
>
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