Niels Liisbergs blog

In this webcast I will demonstrate how easy it is to create a modern web 2.0 application that can replace the frequently used command WRKSPLF in the 5250 environment.

My webcast also shows how easy it is to integrate to other third party tools.

The system i / IBMi / AS/400  is quite different in basic architecture compared to windows, unix or mac. Programs are not placed in the hierarchical file system where "normal" stream files exists - like on windows, unix or mac. Programs or rather program objects are stored in libraries. So you can not directly run a program from the IFS - and this is btw. one of the security features of IBMi platform.

So basically a hive is just a virtual path in IceBreak.

In my previous blog on CLP as a web language I did show you a simple app. Now let just step it up one notch adding a form to the webpage.

I have just finished a session where I got this question: Can we use CL or CLP as a language to communicate with the web?

The answer is yes - IceBreak support a few but powerful commands you can put into your CLP code and then just call that program from your browser. Look at the following:

Owners of a IBMi / i5 / iSeries / AS/400 have very few choices when they want to move legacy apps to the web: It all comes down to CGI in some flawier, or to rewrite into a new language like PHP or java or maybe totally abandon the platform and go with Microsoft or some other Intel architecture.