Re: put in safety my Rest Web Services -- WEB400

Hello Don

Yes we are using Git for RPG, CL, DDS, CMD etc. I have had to create some wrappers for it though in order to make it workable. The source has all been migrated to the IFS for a start. If it were possible to compile stuff (other than RPG) from the IFS then it would be easier, but you cannot as far as I know. Therefore I have a command that creates a change request library, and another that checks out the source member. The latter effectively PULLs the source member from a central repo (we use Bonobo internally) to the IFS repo, then copy's it to the change request library. When the change request is complete, the source is copied back to the IFS repo then committed and PUSHED back to the Bonobo repo. I have created a CMD for each of the most used Git functions (commit, pull, push, clone, add, delete, reset, tag etc). Each Change Request is tagged in the repo also, and of course we tag releases also. It is possible to commit changes on an ad hoc basis before the Change Request is finished if more granular history is required.

I have also created a little locking mechanism to optionally prevent concurrent development on source members, but that is really more to do with keeping the developers (who are not used to concurrent development) from having to worry about merging their changes with others.

Rgds
Kevin

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On 20 Aug 2015, at 05:38, Don Brown <DBrown@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Kevin,

Are you using Git for RPG change management ?

If you are would be interested in any comments, suggestions Etc.

Thanks

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From: Kevin Turner <kevin.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)"
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Date: 20/08/2015 01:50 AM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] put in safety my Rest Web Services
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I agree with the sentiment. Yes you can do everything with RPG but why
would you want to when there are many better options available on the same
platform. I spent many man days a couple of years ago developing an RPG
service program that will interface with the Twitter API and Facebook
Graph. It works well and I am very proud of it - it is also a tad
complicated. However, now I could install a fully functional node version
(via npm) and have the same functionality in a fraction of the time. Now
IBM have introduced a toolkit that enables node apps to integrate fully
with native i objects (programs, data queues, user spaces etc) so there is
even less of a reason to fight the tide. You can now use RPG for the sort
of stuff it is good at, and pick and choose from other options if they do
the job better. Even Git runs on the IBMi now - we now use Git for source
change control and can share and clone repos from IFS locations, PCs, Macs
etc. We no longer need to rely on expensive c
hange control solutions - Git is free, and is better.

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On 19 Aug 2015, at 17:18, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

*>the server-side language is RPGLE*

And this is one of the reasons I've moved on from using RPG as a website
language - you have to go through all the motions of creating things

like

this from scratch. And then even after you've developed it (at
considerable expense to your company) you have to maintain it and fix

bugs

yourself.

I don't say this to ruffle feathers and instead hope to help others come

to

the same conclusion I have after many years of beating the "RPG can do
anything" drum. Sure it can. But at what cost? We're not only talking
cost of development but cost of lost business opportunity because it

took

so long to procure the technology/online-offering.

Going with an open source language has risks. Keeping with RPG for web

has

more risks (my opinion).

Aaron Bartell

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:05 AM, pat <p.caroti@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@...> writes:

What is the server-side language? Many open source languages have

packages

for this (plug and play).

Aaron Bartell

the server-side language is RPGLE

Thanks

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