Search390.com Web Enabling Tip August 1, 2001 ==================================== SPONSORED BY: STORAGE DECISIONS 2001 ==================================== Storage Decisions 2001 brings together the top storage industry analysts and expert technologists to give you specific how-to advice to set storage strategy, make key decisions and manage storage effectively. This exclusive conference is FREE to those who qualify. Apply today at: http://www.StorageDecisions2001.com. ======================================================== ======================================================== FEATURED TOPIC: CICS ======================================================== CICS has long been viewed as a highly-robust transaction processing program, but did you know it can also help you Web-enable legacy apps? 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Tomorrow at 3:00PM EDT go to: http://search390.techtarget.com/onlineEvents/0,289675,sid10,00.html =========================================== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TODAY'S WEB ENABLING TIP: Web Adventures of NetRexx, the Wonder Code! By Jim Keohane --- with apologies to the Space Ghost (http://www.toonopedia.com/rex.htm) IBM Fellow Mike Cowlishaw's NetRexx, based on his Rexx scripting language, was designed as a simpler but complete alternative to Java. Applications, applets and servlets for any Java Virtual Machine (JVM) can be done in NetRexx with less coding and in less time. Java classes and beans are easily accessible. Mainframers already familiar with decades-old Rexx can leverage that expertise on upcoming Web development. And it's FREE! Visit IBM NetRexx home page at http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/netrexx. NetRexx, and especially its arithmetic features, is often described as designed for humans. The default is decimal arithmetic with binary as an option. Decimal precision is completely configurable. Mainframers should have the "warm fuzzies" over business-like decimal numbers rather than be concerned with binary rounding issues. Rexx, including the math, is defined by the ANSI X3.274 standard. NetRexx (and Object Rexx) have been submitted to ANSI by the Rexx Language Association at http://www.rexxla.org. NetRexx (latest version 2.02) can be used as a translator that emits true Java source code. It also can be used as a runtime interpreter where you wish to trade off performance in return for quicker starts, easier rapid prototyping and better diagnostics. View quickie slide show at http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/netrexx/netrexxi.pdf. Intrigued? Want a free download of docs and executables? Visit http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/netrexx/nrdown.html. How about NetRexx and Java Beans? No Problem-Oh! See http://www.ibm.com/technology/NetRexx/nrbean.htm. Want to develop on a workstation in an Integrated Development Environment (IDE)? Visit http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/3599/VisualNetRexx. Care to see a very simple applet in NetRexx--as well as how to edit, compile and invoke it from a browser? Visit http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/netrexx/helloapp.htm. Want a quick peek at a simple NetRexx introduction for Java Programmers? Visit http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/3015/netrexxAtOnce.html. Want to monitor or even subscribe to IBM-NetRexx List? Visit http://ncc.hursley.ibm.com/majordomo/IBM-NETREXX Summer Reading Assignments: The NetRexx Language, M. F. Cowlishaw ISBN 0-13-806332-X, 197pp, Prentice Hall, 1997 IBM 1997 RedBook "Creating Java Applications Using NetRexx" SG24-2216-00. IBM 1998 RedBook VM/ESA "Network Computing for Java and NetRexx"SG24-5148-00. About the author: Jim Keohane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is president of New York consulting company Multi-Platforms, Inc. His company specializes in commercial software development/consulting with emphasis on cross-platform and performance issues. ------------------------------------------------- Do you have a question for Jim? If so, submit it here: http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestion/0,289624,sid10_tax285032,00.html If you'd like talk about NetRexx with you peers, go right ahead. Visit our Developer discussion forum and see what others think about NetRexx vs Java. To visit the Developer forum, simply click here: http://search390.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?50@@.ee83ff7 If you have Web-enabling questions or concerns, we suggest visiting the E-Business forum. While you're there, see if you can help search390 user "EPISecurity" with this problem: "I am trying to use EPI from a Java Servlet. In the literature, I found that we can not use CESN to sign-on. How is it possible to execute a transaction without log-on to the system? How to ensure that a transaction is available for only a set of user-ids on the mainframe through web interface? Can someone give sample code etc?" If you have an answer for EPISecurity, please post it here: http://search390.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]^[email protected] =============== TIPS CONTEST =============== Have a great tip of your own that you'd like to share with the rest of us? Then send it in. Our tip of the month contest has been extended through the end of August, so there is still time to take home the fabulous T-Rex remote control dinotronic dinosaur. 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