RE: webfacing and competing products

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Buck
>
> > I would guess that, if you really wanted to, you could toss
> > away the 5250 version of a program processed through PSC/400.
>
> Yes.  PSC/400 creates a parallel RPG program: one with an API call
> instead of EXFMT which gets the record format buffer.  The other
> end of the API is the UI, which could be an RPG program with the
> original DSPF doing EXFMT, an HTML generator, etc.  One can (and
> should?) discard the original RPG program
> with the embedded DSPF and EXFMTs.  It's in the book.

Just to be clear, due to client demand, the commercial version of PSC/400
generates programs that can still run interactively.  A single program can
run either interactively using a display file or in batch using the PSC/400
runtime.

And yes, while HTML is the standard interface, PSC/400 is completely UI
independent and can be used to communicate via XML or any other method you
choose.

Joe