Re: Upload files to IFS from Browser

It is in fact trivial, which may be why, the Net.data solution is the original and simplest solution, unchanged since way before 2000.
Without any code, Net.data automatically detects if the request is a file upload and dumps it into a common upload folder giving it a unique mangled filename.
It is significant that, even on current OS/400 releases, IBM continues to deploy Net.data to manage its functions on the IBM Digital Certificate Manager.
Uploading files via Net.data could be the only thing you use it for.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Wednesday, 8 June 2011 7:43 AM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Upload files to IFS from Browser

Frankly, something this trivial should be easy to write in just about
any programming language. PHP, CGIDEV2, Java... anything you can find
that runs on IBM i should make short work of this.

Unless you're looking for software that's already written?

On 6/7/2011 2:03 PM, Lowary, Jim wrote:

I'm wanting to set up a webpage on iSeries, where users can upload
multiple specific files (jpg, tif, pdf, doc, etc) directly to an IFS
folder then write an indexing file in the same folder. This would be to
replace a Delphi program that does this now in two steps. One to index
and the second to ftp to the IFS folder.

I'm thinking this sort of thing could be done in PHP, but I also want to
look at other solutions too. A quick look at the archives and all I
found is some reference to net.data, which we wouldn't want to do and
this was from back in 2007 anyway.

I'm wanting to put together a proof of concept to see if I can get this
to fly.

Any suggestions as to where/what to look at?

Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions.

-- Jim Lowary