RE: [WEB400] Can CGI Do this ???

["Andrew Borts" <Andrewb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK - sorry I've been lax in communicating...

1) There are SOME things you probably want to re-think for the web - because of 
"Stateless" computing, you may need to think of these grand input schemes in a 
different way.
2) In Net.Data - you can create a WHOLE TABLE and send that into an RPG 
program, and parse it from there, BUT - that would limit the amount of things 
you're truly entering at once.  If this is eliminating a green screen 
application, you need to ask yourself if you HAVE to enter 200 things w/out 
sending to the system to save - remember - your PC could go "Down" in the 
middle of entering THAT much stuff...   You can also read that table in a 
subroutine, and do multiple "inserts/updates" etc... accordingly... more 
control in RPG though...

Nathan - your product is probably quite first rate - but because of CGIDEV 
(when I started using it) and CGIDEV2 - the marketplace has a VERY nice CGI 
tool to use, as well as Net.Data - which allows more flexibility in 
communicating with the back end systems...

Anyway - I've been warning you guys that the 400 isn't your true "powerhouse" 
E-commerce store on the web system.  It IS a powerhouse E-Commerce B2B, and CRM 
system though.  These are the technologies we NEED to push on our 
bosses/clients.  Connection into your vendors will SAVE THEM MORE EVERY DAY 
instead of using EDI, and Faxing to vendors etc...

Andrew Borts / Webmaster
Seta Corporation
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan M. Andelin [mailto:nandelin@RELATIONAL-DATA.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 10:48 AM
To: web400@midrange.com
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Can CGI Do this ???

> From: "Anton Gombkötö" <gombkoetoe@ASSOFT.COM>
> Evidently your product can compete. ;-)
> I didn't want to make this sound like an offense, i was just
> curious (again).

Nothing you've said was offensive, Anton.  I just believe that CGIDEV2 and
Net.Data have effectively eliminated any market there may have been for
low-cost, ILE-based Web application frameworks.  Hopefully I can find
customers by offering services instead.

It did surprise me that Andrew Borts inferred that Craig Peleke had come up
with an easy way to emulate a "subfile next change" operation in Net.Data,
because I thought I understood the work involved.  But you already pointed
out that there were no input capable fields in Andrew's example.

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com


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