This class will introduce you to everything you need to know to get started writing RPG programs for the Internet. It is a code-intensive presentation, with many examples of using the HTTP APIs and writing procedures to create your own web toolbox and write typical applications for Internet browser interfaces.
Recommended schedule: 3 days (lab workshop)
This class is also available as a 1 day seminar (with no labs).
Who Should Attend
This class is appropriate for existing RPG IV programmers who need to build web-based RPG IV programs using CGI techniques.
Prerequisites To successfully complete this course, students should have completed the following courses, or have equivalent knowledge/experience:
IBM i Concepts and Programming Tools
Introduction to RPG IV Programming
RPG IV and the Integrated Language Environment
Previous knowledge of another computer language (especially Java or C), as well as previous knowledge of HTML, may be helpful.
What You Will Accomplish
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
Configure the HTTP Server
Recognize and use the HTTP APIs in a CGI program
Use RPG IV to create browser output
Build source and IFS templates to facilitate HTML development
Read browser input in an RPG IV program
Create a service program "tool box" to write RPG IV based CGI programs
Write an RPG IV program to create report output for a browser
Use RPG IV to read an HTML form from a browser
Write a browser-based database maintainence application
