Re: Recommendations of web development architecture/tool for diverse i5 access...

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave,

First it's important to understand if you're building a web
application, no matter the langauge/tool/etc you use you'll
be buidling dynamic HTML, using Javascript, Stylesheets
(hopefully),  etc.  All that is the same no matter the tool
used.

For my clients I normally ask if they are an RPG shop.  If
so, I suggest CGIDEV2 or my eRPG SDK (www.erpgsdk.com).
 These allow you to write web application using RPG.  So,
if you can build them using RPG and green screens, then
this is just changing the delivery method to use the web.
 Which requires the knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, etc.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Wed, 30 May 2007 13:06:45 -0700
 "Dave Odom" <Dave.Odom@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What architecture/language/tool would you all recommend
> for developing
> an in-house web application that provides the following:
>  
> - Menu items that allow users to invoke certain limited
> i5 commands,
> submit specific i5 jobs, invoke specific i5 programs
> built in REXX and
> other languages under a secondary userid with authorities
> - Display current and other user's spoolfiles using
> another userid with
> authorities
> - And administrative function that easily allows IS to
> grant and revoke
> access to specific users to individual menu items built
> in the web
> application.
>  
> What I'm trying to do is:
>  
> - build a web application that will allow some very
> spoiled users that
> have had WAY to many privileges, access to certain
> specific capabilities
> without giving them all the special authorities
> they've had in the past.
> - build it with a language or tool that has robust
> capabilities but
> doesn't take a master to build anything, supports rapid
> application
> development, is flexible enough to grow with the needs of
> the business,
> doesn't cost a arm and a leg, uses a common language for
> which there are
> human resources easily available on the market
>  
> I've done i5 Web applications in .ASP, HTML, Javascript
> and can do this
> job with those tools once again but there might be a
> better mousetrap
> out there so thought I'd ask.  I have WebSphere and I
> think its
> Developer tools available on the i5.
>  
> Thanks in advance for your advice,
>  
> Dave Odom
>  
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Bradley V. Stone
BVS.Tools
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