Yes, we could. There are lots of ways to access DB2 and COBOL programs over the web. Our shop is interested in Node.JS for various reasons-probably particular to us, so won't go into details.
I see Node.JS as a niche technology. It will never replace our .NET or our COBOL app development. But, in the right situations, it might be just what we need. Exposing COBOL and DB2 resources as web services might be one of those situations where we could use it often.
Thanks,
Kelly Cookson
IT Project Leader
Dot Foods, Inc.
217-773-4486 ext. 12676
www.dotfoods.com<
http://www.dotfoods.com>
From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Justin Taylor
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2018 9:48 AM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [WEB400] What forum is best for a Tope and Node question?
This may be a silly question, but can't you use COBOL? IWS says it supports ILE languages, so I assume that includes COBOL. If not, there's always CGIDEV2.
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Subject: Re: [WEB400] What forum is best for a Tope and Node question?
Profound Logic seems to think Node.JS is more than experimental. Granted, their Profound.JS Connector is a commercial product, so they have a financial incentive to say Node.JS is ready for prime-time. Yet, they have invested a lot of their modernization efforts into Node.JS. I think they really do see Node.JS as being ready for serious production use on IBM i.
I think the biggest obstacle for our shop is that we just plain lack Node.JS skills. Our .NET developers really don't have an interest in working with it. They just want Node.JS on the IBM i to magically feed them web services. Our IBM i developers are experts at CL and COBOL. Node.JS not in their world of interests, either.
I would love to get Node.JS up and running. We already have .NET developers asking for it. But I'm far, far too much of a newbie not to paint our shop into a corner-assuming I can get something production-ready at all.
Thanks,
Kelly Cookson
IT Project Leader
Dot Foods, Inc.
217-773-4486 ext. 12676
www.dotfoods.com<
http://www.dotfoods.com><
http://www.dotfoods.com<
http://www.dotfoods.com>>
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