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Note: Varying length fields are excellent for getting rid of %trim()'s ... just watch using them on the way in with parms. I forget exactly where, but I think a while back I thought I'd get tricky and use them in my physical file that was setup to parse the query string. eRPG didn't like that, not at all. Either Bob C. or Brad S. pointed out my problem to me. -----Original Message----- From: Bartell, Aaron L. (TC) [mailto:ALBartell@taylorcorp.com] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 6:22 PM To: 'web400@midrange.com' Subject: RE: [WEB400] How to present large datasets on the Web? Buck, My biggest result set that I allow is 999 records to be viewed at any one time (e-RPG program). It takes about 10 seconds to run that many(I need to rewrite the program to have varying length fields so I don't have so many %trim()'s), and another 4 seconds for the browser to download all of. The way this program works is it allows the user to select how many results they want to see at any given time (usually 30 - 300) and also allows them to select the criteria for the result (maybe they have a date range they want to look for). It is an intranet app so I can't show you exactly how it works; but is it an option for you to show pieces of the phone bill and not the entire 5000 right up front? What are your customers using the website for, printing out a copy of the bill? Or do they just peruse the entire 5000 records all at once? Does the Web person need to go through an RPG pgm for security reasons? If you don't want them to have business logic in the Java program to develop a result set, maybe you could pass them back an SQL statement that will then be executed in the Java Servlet(or what have you). hth, Aaron Bartell -----Original Message----- From: Buck Calabro [mailto:Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 4:40 PM To: web400@midrange.com Subject: [WEB400] How to present large datasets on the Web? I am the RPG guy, not a Web guy and so my question needs to be viewed in that light. Our Web person is struggling with her adaptation to the iSeries. We have customers who have multi-million record database files and this is apparently none too common in the Java/Web universe. In particular, we're looking at ways to present a telephone bill on the web. Most residential users' bills can fit on two or three printed pages, and that's easy to do. What's harder is a commercial customer who might have 5,000 toll calls a month. Or more. We started by using the Java toolbox and direct program calls to RPG programs to fetch the data. Call the "customer summary" program and get back the 20 or so data elements that make up the top of the bill. Call the "taxes" program and get back the dozen or so data elements that make up the taxes section. The ProgramCall class is nice because it has connection pooling. Then we get to long distance calls. First, the direct program call method has a 35 parameter limitation. Second, it costs about .3 seconds per call. Doing the math, it would take 25 minutes to call the "get a toll record" program 5000 times. Not a bargain. By blocking the call records up (that is, stuffing as many records as we can into a 64kb parameter) we can reduce the number of calls considerably. This does not seem terribly promising from a maintenance standpoint. Ultimately, there's a limit. We're prototyping a JDBC solution now, but data queues have been bandied about too. So. Has anyone tried to routinely display a list that contains five or ten thousand entries on the web? What architectural approach did you take? --buck _______________________________________________ This is the Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries (WEB400) mailing list To post a message email: WEB400@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/web400 or email: WEB400-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/web400. _______________________________________________ This is the Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries (WEB400) mailing list To post a message email: WEB400@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/web400 or email: WEB400-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/web400.
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