Re: Honesty vs Opinion vs The Truth - Best IBM i Tool Set

On 2015-11-04 14:09, Buck Calabro wrote:

On 11/4/2015 12:47 PM, Rob wrote:

The project I am taking over, it is a mix of WebSmart PML
compiled to FREE RPG and PHP.

Are any of the tables used by this project also used by non-web
programs? Things like green screen maintenance, or reports?

On 11/4/2015 3:48 PM, Rob wrote:

Yes.. We are running analytics, we also process Scheduled Automated
payments.

So are there any business rules which are implemented via these non-web
programs that you will also need to enforce in the web application? If
so, how will you do that? Will you ask the RPG people to expose the
rules in a stored procedure or UDF for SQL to be able to easily use?

Or is the web application so distinct from the rest of the business'
applications that it's got no overlapping business rules?

I'm very interested to read how other people have tackled the problem of
'legacy' business rules overlapping new web deployments.