Re: native PHP in V5R4???

["albartell" <albartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Our users are going NUTS over this. 
Makes me wish IBM would put out a simple add that shows a nice looking web
page with a caption "...this is running on the iSeries...". Maybe they need
to sell it more to the general public than developers :-)

Aaron Bartell

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Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 1:22 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] native PHP in V5R4???

On 2/23/06, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The truth is that most anything you can do in SQL outside of a few 
> vendor-specific extensions you can do on the iSeries.  And then, when 
> you need extra performance, you can go to native I/O.  In fact, RPG is 
> the only language I know of that allows you to access your database 
> both ways, which in my mind makes it leading edge!

If we're worried about perception, why are we talking about back-end
technologies?  The folks who are managing by in-flight magazine and making
IT decisions are doing so because they believe that 5250 is dated technology
(and I'm not going to debate the validity of this belief as I believe there
are situations for both 5250 and GUI [and I am my company's webmaster]).

We are rewriting and enhancing a 5250 application (very little data entry,
mostly inquiry, a great candidate for a GUI) using JSP/Java (running on
WebSphere on iSeries) dealing with the iSeries back end. 
We have a mix of record level access and SQL, RPG program calls, and some
MQT's mixed in for good measure.  Our users are going NUTS over this.  They
are all telling us that they "did not know that the AS/400 could do this."
It's been able to do this for years; it's the IT staff that hasn't been able
to do this (not enough web guys to put on an internal project until now).
The users ASSUME the platform is old and incapable because we are not
producing the kinds of apps they want.

We have all the tools we need to provide world-class GUI applications.
 If we can provide applications that meet or exceed user expectations (both
presentation and performance), we don't need to worry about some knucklehead
saying that we need to migrate to UNIX/Oracle or Windows/SQL Server or
whatever.

Mike E.

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