superk
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Joined: 26 Apr 2004
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Location: Raleigh, NC, USA
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I thought I'd run this idea by all you guys, and see if you might have some specific suggestions for the right mix of languages or tools to create a new appliaction I'm toying with.
This will be used mainly by the Operations staff, so the front-end will be based on an ISPF Dialog, panels, tables, etc. I'll need to create a SOAP package and send it to the http host, receive back the xml data, parse it, and build the ISPF table from the results. Then, the operator will select a particular row, and I'll again need to make the SOAP call, receive the xml data, parse it, and display the results.
The data is in an Oracle database, and since they've announced their discontinued support of Oracle for the mainframe, I want to stay away from any direct interface to Oracle.
I've already prototyped this process with REXX, and it works OK but, as you might expect, runs a bit slow. I'd like to speed it up somehow.
Any thoughts/suggestions for what standard set of tools I might look at? I was just reviewing the SAS website and it looks as if they offer a solution. Would perl or java be better suited to this? How's COBOL for dealing with a SOAP call? |
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