Re: Integrated Web Services server

My understanding of the question was "does the IWS let me keep my old code that writes to 5250 screens, and extract data from that 5250 screen to make it into a web service"? I would consider that a treacherous slope. Your code should be designed as re-usable, modular code. The business logic should be organized into a set of re-usable service routines. Those re-usable routines should be called as a web service. (and possibly called other ways as well)

If you try to "screen scrape" your ancient 5250 applications that were designed for a 5250 terminal, and not designed to be a web service, then you are, in my humble opinion, heading down a treacherous slope.

Please understand that I'm in no way advocating the use of 5250 -- quite the opposite.

Dave Odom wrote:

While I don't know specifically about the Integrated Web Services
server, getting off of 5350 and moving to GUI, of an appropriate
form, is the way to go to prevent the IBM i from becoming an even
greater anomaly in the IT world than it already is. As long as it
is perceived as an anomaly in the IT world at large it will rarely be
considered by the CxO level and its doom is certain and perhaps
quicker than you might think.