Re: need for simple web screen

If you are looking for simple examples of MANY approaches to this I would
suggest the new Application Modernization Redbook. Tim Rowe rounded up a
long list of folks to illustrate many examples and features including
database, RPG, java, PHP and MUCH more.

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/pdfs/sg248185.pdf

Regards,

Mike
Office Phone: (708)233-5880 Cell: (408)679-1011

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From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth
Martin
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 5:16 PM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: [WEB400] need for simple web screen

uh oh. I believe I am about to learn something important.

Stored procedure? Result sets? My bet is that those terms do not mean
what I thought they meant.

Is there a simple example somewhere that we can look at? Simple.
Something that demonstrates the process to which you are pointing? Did I
mention simple? (If you have ever looked at the examples on my web site
you realize I like simple and overly obvious examples.)


On 5/5/2014 3:22 PM, Buck Calabro wrote:

On 2014-05-05, at 9:41 AM, Hoteltravelfundotcom

<hoteltravelfun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What are some methods to do a simple web screen it could be on a
company server.

It would show the actual shipments that have gone out till that point
in time.

it would get this data from one table on the ibm i, already summarized.
so we would show something like

Order type Total shipments
ABC 100
DEF 200

etc.

Before we can discuss whether we want a jacuzzi or a walk-in shower,
we need to talk about the plumbing. The first question you need to
answer is this: What is your intended web server? Is it a Windows
server, a Linux server or the i? Who controls the configuration of that

server?

Do you have a way you can deploy your web application by yourself, or
will you need to involve a formal change management person?

The reason these questions are interesting is simple: If your company
has an existing web programming group who handle even your intranet
needs, then you might be facing an uphill struggle to be the newbie
amateur trying to deploy a .NET application to a production server.
Might. If your company forces all the web development to go through
the web people then your job will probably be to create some stored
procedures for them to consume. They love result sets. (Seriously.)

If your company hasn't got an established policy for intranet
development and you are forging the path, you have many avenues open
to you. I myself like to do it all on the i side because I control
the configuration, I control the deployment, I control the access and
I can debug each and every one of those parts from my desk. I'd still
write stored procedures to isolate the DB layer from the UI layer.
You'll love result sets. (Seriously.)

If you're a better .NET programmer than I am, and you have reasonably
free access to a Windows web server (do they still call it IIS?) then
by all means do it that way. Write .NET that runs on the server and
have it call stored procedures that you write on the i side.
--buck

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