Re: Reading data

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good question.  Thank you for asking it. Here is my reasoning, good or bad:

The target audience for this project is the ordinary RPG programmer who 
wants to try all this stuff out.  Gaining a base understanding of what 
is going on seems to me to be an underlying first need.  Injecting 
useful but deflecting issues like needing to learn other languages is, 
in my opinion, a downer for the target audience.

Once s/he has gained some comfort then that is a good time to go off 
into the many great and varied solutions.

But at first, to get one's feet wet, I would like to keep it as simple 
as possible.

The other reason I want to do it this way is that I am not expert enough 
to be offering anymore than the most basic stuff.  Once it gets past 
simple then I am likely to mess up.

On 1/18/2013 7:48 AM, Glenn Hopwood wrote:
> Booth,
>
> Why limit yourself to RPG? There are multiple, well supported, free
> options. Just see the periodic 'best language' conversations on this list.
>
> Glenn
>
> On 1/17/2013 7:34 PM, Booth Martin wrote:
> > First, this is a very simplistic request.  I admit to being flummoxed as
> > to how to get started.
> >
> > Then some background:  I want to stay within the confines of what IBM
> > provides with the base midrange package.  I know there a lot of various
> > third party tools, but I want to stay with the solutions provided by
> > IBM.  My reasoning is simple:  I want a solution that any RPG programmer
> > can build, on his machine, without having to talk his bosses into
> > spending more money for extras.
> >
> > Where I am at:  I have built a web site on the Apache server where I can
> > serve up static reports generated in RPG and then published as HTML in
> > the IFS.   Here is a screen shot.
> > http://www.martinvt.com/Ice_Cream_Project/Ice_Cream__HTML_/ice_cream__html_.html
> > http://tinyurl.com/a5e7o9e
> >
> > What I believe is the next baby step: I would like to add a flavor to
> > the physical file from a web page.  Perhaps edit/delete, too, if that is
> > a small step.  But I do not understand the process very well.  In the
> > end I want to have the ability to add an image for the flavor, too.
> >
> > Any comments are welcome.  I am hoping I can make the Ice Cream Project
> > as a beginners guide for RPG programmers.   "Keep it Simple" is the key
> > phrase.
> >
> > Thank you.