Re: Web App for AS400 database

[Wayne McAlpine <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Depending on the release of the operating system, your AS400 has 
web-serving capabilities that will handle just about anything you care 
to throw at it.  The most efficient way of handling your application is 
probably CGI programs.  Google iseries and CGI to get a link to the 
shell programs that you'll need.  The trail blazing has already been done.

Faisal Malik wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Ok first of all just to let you know I'm a newbie to AS400.
>
> I have joined a new company and here we have AS400 running which contains
> prices, stock availability etc... Currently our customers ring us to 
> enquire
> price and availability for a part and someone from customer services dept
> will search for the part using the emulator on there PC and read out the
> results to the customer.
>
> We would like to provide this facility of searching a part price and
> availability etc directly to our customers. We have massive amounts of
> customers across the country so best way would be to design a web app and
> make it available on our website.
>
> My question is that first of all which programming language should I use to
> program the we app i.e. asp or jsp or php or any other suggestions? And how
> would I link the app with the AS400 database? When suggesting please 
> keep in
> mind the app has to be efficient because 100s of companies would be
> interrogating the database simultaneously.
>
>
> Many thanxxxx
>
> Laura