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iSafari®

IBM i multiple functioning tool set to aid in wide array of software development such as web responsive development, enhance current application functionality, enhance new software development, to name a few.

iSafari started life as a server interface between an external HTTP server and RPG programs. It has evolved over the years since 2001 to become at its core, an HTTP server that is streamlined to serve documents & to guide the processing of data. It has it’s own user management controls allowing you to setup/manage users who are IBM i users as well as those who are not. The system also contains it’s own Document Management System which is integrated into the user management & security system. Another part of the security system is the mapping of Application & Option ID's to RPG programs & HTML docs.

So... based on what you have read so far, all you need to remember is that the system handles authentication, verification & management of users & their requests, you get to do the rest.

Now comes the fun part... writing web pages using CSS & javascript!!!!!

Just the other day a friend & I was working on a complicated web app that was determining on the fly choices & content based on previously entered choices, and it was tough. We started reminiscing that for about half our careers, we were locked into using telnet (greenscreen) presentations that didn't even allow us to contemplate that there was a bigger world of choices out there. Then we started feeling sorry for those programmers out there still doing telnet, because they will never understand that life after DDS is amazing!.