Re: Library list for IFS folders?

["Sarah Poger Gladstone" <listmember@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charlie- There is nothing built in that is equivilent to *LIBL. But,
you can get pretty close.

For starters, in your source where you have the line:
GetHtmlIfs('/compcgi/dev/cgihtml/CGI_SKU411a.html');

Change the line to:
GetHtmlIfs(htmlpath + 'CGI_SKU411a.html');

The htmlpath variable will need to have its value read in at runtime
from an external location. You could read in the value from a data
area in the libl list, or from a message file or from a data file.
Then in your dev. environment the data area would hold the value
"/compcgi/dev/cgihtml/".  In your QA environment the data area would
hold the value "/compcgi/qa/cgihtml/".

How many HTML files do you have? Using the approach I've suggested
above, you'll need to have a full set of the HTML files in
"/compcgi/dev/cgihtml/" and "/compcgi/qa/cgihtml/

If you want a more robust approach where the CGI program uses a set of
paths and searches each folder until it finds the file it wants,
you'll need to code this yourself. I wrote a service program that did
that exact thing at a previous employer. It was extremely helpful. The
service program was called from every CGI program when it was time to
send HTML to the browser.

-Sarah




On 2/20/07, Charlie Ramsdale <Charlie_Ramsdale@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok.. I'll see if I can make the picture a little clearer.
>
> We built a product inquiry screen (intranet only). Screen1 prompts for
> SKU and store.  Screen2 displays the image, basic info, qty on hand,
> current promotions, rebates and finance offers for the SKU.  Each promo,
> rebate and finance description is a link to other screens to view more
> details about that promo, rebate, finance offer.
> The legacy code for each screen/page has a separate ile/free pgm that
> creates the html code line by line (I didn't create this, I inherited
> it)
> We're converting this into CGI based code where the ile/free code exists
> in qrpglesrc and the html src is in the root file system as a .html
> file. (compiled objects are in DEVLIB and/or QALIB and/or PRODLIB)
> When loading the html page with data we're using the following code:
>   GetHtmlIfs('/compcgi/dev/cgihtml/CGI_SKU411a.html');
>      UpdHTMLvar('STRno':STRno);
>      UpdHTMLvar('out_strname':out_strname);
>      UpdHTMLvar('out_sku':out_sku);
>      UpdHTMLvar('out_skudesc':out_skudesc);
>      UpdHTMLvar('out_qoh':out_qoh);
>      UpdHTMLvar('out_price':out_price);
>      WrtSection('Page1');
>
> The 'dev' in the path name will be replaced with 'QA' or 'prod'
> depending on which environment it was called from.  Normally there
> should only be a copy of the .html file in dev if we're doing current
> work on it, or a separate copy in qa if they are currently testing
> changes we've made.  If neither is the case, then the only copy of that
> .html file should be in production.. but I'm running this page from DEV
> to test another page in the stream and so my path is defaulting to DEV
> and it crashes because it doesn't look for and find the copy in PROD.
> If this were a normal 'CALL' command, the system would look for the
> program in the libraries listed in your library list - but we don't have
> that built in ability in this case.
>
> So I'm looking for a way to work with this situation.  Do I have to keep
> a copy of every object in every environment so it will only have to look
> in the current directory? Should I search for an object through multiple
> paths in a predetermined order and use the path of the first copy I
> find?
>
> Help!
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Matt.Haas@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 8:44 AM
> To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] Library list for IFS folders?
>
> Charlie,
>
> The root file system (which is what most people incorrectly call the
> IFS, the IFS includes all file systems. QSYS is an example of a file
> system to library lists do apply) does not have a library list. Having a
> little more information about how you are using the stuff in the root
> file system will help with getting suggestions.
>
> Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Charlie Ramsdale
> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 12:27 PM
> To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [WEB400] Library list for IFS folders?
>
> We have one system that shares 3 environments - dev, QA and production,
> each with its own copy of data files and possibly different versions of
> programs depending on active dev and testing (we use Turnover to
> promote). Accessing the correct copy or the production copy of a program
> or file is easy with the library list.  When a user runs a pgm he'll hit
> the dev or qa version (depending on liblist), if there is no dev or qa
> version, then it will eventually find the production version.  Now we're
> adding CGI development with the HTML code in the IFS folders and we've
> abruptly discovered that we know of no 'library list' functionality with
> objects in the IFS folders.  We obviously don't want to hard code paths
> and maintaining a soft version of paths to all objects for the 3
> environments seems ludicrous.  Is there a 'library list' style access
> for IFS folders that we're not aware of or maybe some other method that
> we as noobies need to be aware of before we go too far in our current
> development?
>
>
>
> Charlie
>
>
>
> PS: We do have separate browser paths for the 3 environments so we know
> which environ the user is running the program(s) from, but that limits
> access to objects in that environment and it will not find an object in
> the production environ when needed (unless the path is provided).
>
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