Re: commit control for an interactive web app, is this feasible

[jon.paris@xxxxxxxx]

I've not tried commitment control within a CGI program but it should work
as long as you are using persistent CGI.  The only working example programs
that use persistence that I am aware of are part of the CGIDEV2 package and
can be found at www.easy400.ibm.it.  Brad Stone may have an example on his
site (www.bvstools.com) but I didn't see one the last time I visited.

Most folks seem to stay away from persistent CGI because dealing with the
session time-out issues causes as much if not more work than maintaining
your own persistence information.  However, in your case if the session
dies I guess you just want to roll back as you would if the 5250 was
unplugged so it probably is worth considering.  Without persistence you
will have to do it all yourself unless you spawn a "batch" job for each
user that sits on the end of a dataqueue and do all of your IO stuff there.
Probably not worth the effort.

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