Re: Looking for Advice/Suggestions

[Niels Liisberg <nli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Also  take a look at the ILEastic project - it is open source, free and
used in many projects now.

https://github.com/sitemule/ILEastic

<product_allert>
However If you just want to to bring the 5250 into your application, you
can do it with my product IceCap - that is not open source.
</product_allert>

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 5:41 PM Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> One thought that might be relatively bite-sized....
>
> You can do a plain old HTML mockup of your app if you use the Bootstrap
> HTML framework.
>
> https://getbootstrap.com/
>
> Bootstrap turns plain old HTML in to eye candy without needing much/if any
> Javascript knowledge.
>
> You can test your HTML app by opening the HTML in your browser to view
> from a directory on your desktop or from Apache or another HTTP web server.
>
> Build a little plain old HTML Bootstrap prototype that looks good and then
> you can replace the data that needs to be dynamic by using RPG/CGI and
> re-using some of your existing logic, PHP, Python or whatever else for the
> web bits.
>
> Auto-refreshing dashboards are a great use for the Bootstrap HTML
> framework because you can do most of it with some simple HTML tables or
> other replace tags in the template.
>
> I call them poor-man's dashboards.
>
> What I often do is create an HTML file template with some placeholders for
> table data or other data so I can just replace those tags real-time with an
> app that runs periodically (every few minutes/seconds or nightly). And with
> an HTML refresh tag in the simple web page it looks like it's a fancy
> auto-refreshing app on the big screens.
>
> Viola - Instant dashboard.
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen
> Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
> Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Phn: (612) 315-1745
>
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>
> message: 1
> date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 08:44:17 -0500
> from: "Kelley" <kelley.work@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: [WEB400] Looking for Advice/Suggestions
>
>
>
>         I'm not sure if this is the right list...
>
>         I'm looking for advice/suggestions on how to change an RPG/green
> screen application to be accessible from a browser.
>
>         Last week I was at the RPG/DB2 conference in Minneapolis. A great
> conference as usual. I was particularly interested in the open source
> sessions and I'd like to try some of the techniques I watched being done.
>
>         The shop I work in has been a single person shop for a couple of
> years now (down from three people). All of our software was developed
> in-house over a period of many years. The code is mostly RPG400 and green
> screens. I write any new code using RPG Free and other newer techniques,
> however the applications are pretty stable so I don't write a lot of new
> code. My other responsibilities (PC's, networks, and so on) keep me from
> doing any refactoring.
>
>          The program I'd like to change is an RPG Free program that uses a
> green screen display to show current yield data to the manufacturing line
> (it displays a bar chart using control codes for different colors). It's
> displayed on a large screen TV that is visible in the plant. It refreshes
> every 15 seconds.
>
>         I'd like to update this process and move the display of the data
> to a web browser so it can be visible to those without an IBM i client.
> This is not an area I have much experience in. The closest I've come is
> using CGIDEV to create a web page that displays sales data.
>
>         My question is, where to start? I've spent some time on the web
> looking at various ways to do this, I think there are about a million.
> What's the best way to ease into this?
>
>         To help narrow options down a bit, I know RPG, C and SQL. I've
> done some simple HTML and CSS. I'm familiar with linux. I built a simple
> inventory app a few years ago using a LAMP stack and PHP. I'm currently
> learning Python.
>
>         Any and all suggestions are welcome.
>
>         Thanks, Kelley.
>
>
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