Re: Long time RPGer needs help getting started in new methods

Blair,

If you're wanting to learn to use WDSC for web development, I recommend you
go to http://www.mc-store.com/5066.html and purchase Joe Pluta's WDSC
Step-by-Step book. It's only $25 for the next few days and IMHO will be
money well spent. It is based on a prior version of WDSC but I think it's
close enough to the current version that you can figure out the differences.
In the book, Joe shows you the major components of WDSC and how to use them
to develop a web-based app using his implementation of the JSP Model 2
architecture calling an RPG backend. It comes with a companion CD that
contains all the code referenced in the book plus the code is
compartmentalized so that if you want, you can load the code for any chapter
and pick right up at that point instead of having to do each step in order.
Like I said, its a little dated but for $25 it's worth it just for getting a
better understanding of what can be done with WDSC as well as Joe's
implementation of the JSP II architecture.

Kind regards,

BJ

P.S., I'm just a satisfied customer and have no affiliation with MC Press or
Joe Pluta


On 12/28/06, B Hamren <bhamren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have been searching many of these posts looking for a basic 1,2,3 on
getting started in something other than traditional "AS/400" ways of doing
things. Notice I did not say iSeries or "System i" since all the systems I
have ever worked on are truly only AS/400 in nature. I have used SEU from
S/34 to S/36 to S/38 to AS/400. Once I went to Common and saw Paul Conte's
demo on FlexEdit and convinced our shop to go that route. That meant buying
5 Intel 486 based PC's @$2500 each, 5 Twinax boards @ $500 each, 5 FlexEdit
licences at @500 each, and then we ended up not using it since it did not
save the source change dates in the members.

Since I left that job in 1998 I have worked in shops that are primitive.
Here are some examples of what I mean:
a.. Running ancient packages written in RPG Auto-report or S/36
environment or (currently) a package ported from the S/38 that still uses F1
for exit.
b.. No money in the budget for any type of training or Common conferences
c.. No desire for any change from the old, stable green screen programs
Now I am on an 810 running V5R4. I went to a presentation this summer by
Gary Konicek of IBM Rochester at our local ASU user group in Columbus, Ohio.
He gave out a .pdf file on the software side of V5R4 announcements (a
technical overview). I now have time to try some of these things and I want
to know where to start.

Here is what I have tried and where it stands:

1. I followed Jon Paris and Susan Gantner's "A Quick Start to Using RSE"
to the point where I installed WDSC on my work PC (even though I don't meet
the minimum specs - I am running on an old Compaq with Windows 2000
Professional with only 256Mb of memory). It bogged down my system so much
even having it installed I disabled it all. I would try it on my personal
laptop which is fairly new and has 1 Gb of memory if I thought it wouldn't
bog it down also.

2. I am trying to figure out how to install iSeries Access for Web. That
led me to this newsgroup where I have followed a few threads but have not
seen the ABC method I need yet.

Thanks everyone in advance,

Blair Hamren
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