Re: Alternate UI to RPG

[Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

you have to watch out that you are moving UI code from RPG to server side
web ( PHP, node.js, python ).  In my view, a web app should consist of
javascript running in the browser, using a framework like angular, react or
vue.js and stored procedures on the server, that return result sets, and
are called from the javascript browser code using the async await promise
methodology.


On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 4:13 AM Don Brown <DBrown@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We have built a web portal to allow web integration for external clients
> and this is using php with xmlservice and it is working very nicely.
>
> Now we want to provide some of the internal functions currently only
> available in 5250 green screen.
>
> NOT looking for 3rd party solutions ... No vendors please.
>
> The application is large and we are looking at the 80/20 rule.  20% of the
> menu options are accessed 80% of the time.
>
> My question/enquiry is to people that have been down this path - somewhat
> regardless of whether they used PHP or nodeJS or Python or ???
>
> Did you modify the existing RPG to enable input from either 5250
> Interactive Green Screen AND Web or did you separate the screen logic to
> new programs or how did you retain the investment in the existing program
> logic.
>
> Would be interested in any comments
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
> Don Brown
>
>
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