Re: HTML and PDF Reports

["Dave Odom" <Dave.Odom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,
 
I'd like to learn about EGL and see if it has any applications here.  I think we have most all our reporting needs satisfied by IBM's DataQuant but there will be a need for some simple Web based applications that can call SQL stored procedures on the i5 or send SQL and return one or more records at a time.   Is EGL the best road for such applications or JavaScript/HTML or what?       
 
Thanks,
 
Dave

> > > Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 5/20/2008 06:28 >>>
Shane_Cessna@xxxxxxx wrote:
> I completely agree with Brad on this one. 
>
> We've been down the WebFacing road...hated it...
> We've been down the WebSphere road...hated it...
> Now we're in CGIDEV2 and love it...so easy to use and understand...
>
> It's nice to have a toolset that we can utilize where we can use our 
> existing knowledge of RPG with very little learning curve from html, css 
> and javascript.
>   
So have you tried EGL, Shane?  You can do *all* your business logic in 
RPG, and use WYSIWYG tools to create web pages, then write a couple 
lines of code in a simple syntax to call your business logic.

Joe