Re: WEB query on Fujitsu Cobol



"Massimo Morgia" <massimo.morgia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,
I have an application built with Fujitsu Powercobol on a client-server
network, how can I develop queries that make the data available via Web
broser?

Pretty easily but it depends what "data" you are talking about.

Do you wish to replace the whole PowerCOBOL User interface with a Web
Browser?

Do you want to keep the application as it is, but have access to the "back
end" (file/DB) data being managed by it, through a Web Browser?

Will the "queries" run from a Web Page, or do you want the results of
current queries on the PowerCOBOL screens, redirected to a Web Browser?

Your innocent question has some big implications and different approaches
are needed, depending on the answers to the questions above.

I have had a lot of experience at this and spent a couple of years modifying
PowerCOBOL applications so they could be accessed easily from the Web.

In fact, I built an interface that could be activated from the Web and
appeared to the PowerCOBOL applications as if it was a person interacting
through PowerCOBOL :-) This was for motel reservations and it meant the
system could be used remotely via the Web, 24/7 even if no-one was on duty
or it was the middle of the night. Very useful for round the world bookings
involving different time zones. The staff could come in in the morning and
look at the bookings made during the night via the Web, directly into the
system as if they had been input from PowerCOBOL by somebody at the front
desk.

If this is the sort of thing you want to do, I can definitely help.

Some other questions that are pertinent:

1. Do you have Web Site building experience?
2. What version of PowerCOBOL?
3. Can you run IIS (Internet Information Server) on your system locally, or
do you have remote access to such a server? (You will need this for
debugging...)
4. Do you have VS 2008 or Dreamweaver Studio 8 (Both very useful for Web
development.)

Pete.
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"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."


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