Information Systems:WebSmart Overview

WebSmart is a development tool for creating RPG desktop and mobile web applications.

Excel Systems (ESDI) is the name of the company in Sidney, Vancouver Island that wrote it.

Website -  http://www.excelsystems.com/
Email - excel@excelsystems.com 
Phone - 250-655-1766

BCD is the company that markets it.

Website - http://www.bcdsoftware.com/
Phone – 508-594-2700

A client (IDE – interrated development environment) runs on your PC, where you code in PML and HTML. When you compile, the code is translated to free form RPG on the i.

We have multiple Apache web servers on the i; ADMIN (administration – we don’t use this, but starting Domino now starts all servers), WEBINTER (InfoNet), WEBSMART (Web Orders), and WEBTEST (obviously the testing environment).

In WRKACTJOB –

                            Work with Active Jobs                     BART     
                                                            12/16/14  12:12:18 
CPU %:      .0     Elapsed time:   00:00:00     Active jobs:   541             
                                                                               
Type options, press Enter.                                                     
  2=Change   3=Hold   4=End   5=Work with   6=Release   7=Display message      
  8=Work with spooled files   13=Disconnect ...                                
                    Current                                                    
Opt  Subsystem/Job  User        Type  CPU %  Function        Status            
__   QHTTPSVR       QSYS        SBS      .0                   DEQW             
__     WEBTEST      QTMHHTTP    BCH      .0  PGM-QZHBMAIN     SIGW             
__     WEBTEST      QTMHHTTP    BCI      .0  PGM-QZSRLOG      SIGW             
__     WEBTEST      QTMHHTTP    BCI      .0  PGM-QZSRHTTP     SIGW             
__     WEBTEST      QTMHHTTP    BCI      .0  PGM-QZSRHTTP     DEQW  
__     WEBTEST      QTMHHTP1    BCI      .0  PGM-QZSRCGI      TIMW   
        
Parameters or command                                                          
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F3=Exit   F5=Refresh       F7=Find      F10=Restart statistics                 
F11=Display elapsed data   F12=Cancel   F23=More options   F24=More keys       

CGI (Common Gateway Interface) is a standard method to generate dynamic content on web pages and web applications. When implemented on a web server, provides an interface between it and programs that generate the web content. These programs are known as CGI scripts or simply CGIs; they are usually written in a scripting language, but can be written in any programming language (from Wikipedia). Multiple iterations of these programs will be started; depending on the volume of requests received.