Interfacing ADMINS Data With Interfacing ADMINS Data With The WebThe Web

Tim Travis

City of Lincoln

http://cjis.ci.lincoln.ne.us:8080/web/aiug/

ADMINS International Users Group. Hilton Riverside. October 9-11, 2002

Why the Web?Why the Web?

• Perception. Its GUI• Public Accessible• Public Familiarity• Its Everywhere

ADMINS International Users Group. Hilton Riverside. October 9-11, 2002

Web Servers for OpenVMSWeb Servers for OpenVMSAXP VAX 5.5-2 6.0 6.1 6.2 7.1 7.2 7.3

CSWS x x x

OSU x x x x x x x x x

WASD x x x x x x x x x

Taken from presentation by Mark Daniels, Australia DECUS, 2002

Courtesy of Mark Daniels, Australia DECUS, July 2002

ADMINS International Users Group. Hilton Riverside. October 9-11, 2002

Web Server DistributionWeb Server DistributionDistribution Kit Installation

CSWS Internet PCSI VMS Product Install

OSU Internet ZIP Compile + Link

WASD Internet ZIP Compile and/or Link

Courtesy of Mark Daniels, Australia DECUS, July, 2002

DemoDemo

Demonstration courtesy of Clair Lindquist, Application Development

Manager for the City of Lincoln, Police Department

ADMINS International Users Group. Hilton Riverside. October 9-11, 2002

ADMINS Web InterfaceADMINS Web Interface

Browser Web Server TRANSREPORT

L$

ADMCGI.COM ADMLOG.COM APPLICATION.COM (lpd_demo.com)

SYS$OUTPUT

HTMLForm or URLString HTML

ADMINS International Users Group. Hilton Riverside. October 9-11, 2002

HTML FormHTML Form• <Form method=POST

action="HTTP://CJIS.CI.LINCOLN.NE.US:8080

/CGI-BIN/ADMCGI.COM">

• <Input type=hidden name="CGI" VALUE="WEB:[AIUG]LPD_DEMO.COM">

ADMINS International Users Group. Hilton Riverside. October 9-11, 2002

ADMCGI.COMADMCGI.COM• Assign ADM$TERM a dummy value• Set SYSLCK privilege for process• Run CGIUTL.EXE to convert HTML

FORM variables to DCL symbols• Call ADMLOG.COM to convert symbols to

L$ logicals• Call application DCL procedure pointed to

by hidden FORM variable

ADMINS International Users Group. Hilton Riverside. October 9-11, 2002

ADMLOG.COMADMLOG.COM• FORM variable symbols have “CGIUTL_”

prefix• URL string variable symbols have

“WWW_FORM_” prefix• Write symbols to temporary file. Read

symbols in from file and convert to L$ logicals

ADMINS International Users Group. Hilton Riverside. October 9-11, 2002

APPLICATION.COMAPPLICATION.COM• Set logical OPTION to “FVfcz” for

ADMINS Utilities• Call ADMINS Utilities to process L$

logical parameters

ADMINS International Users Group. Hilton Riverside. October 9-11, 2002

ReportReport• Use SO option to direct output to “Standard

Output” I.e. sys$output• Use “{}” instead of “<>” for html directives

ADMINS International Users Group. Hilton Riverside. October 9-11, 2002

REPORT$ENVREPORT$ENV• Create an environment file for report to

translate “{}” enclosed HTML directives to “<>”

ADMINS International Users Group. Hilton Riverside. October 9-11, 2002

TRANSTRANS• Single record dummy file using append

with RMO to update or insert records in data files and update indexes

• Access a preallocated file using the value of the key field(s), update the record,

and exit

ADMINS International Users Group. Hilton Riverside. October 9-11, 2002

Demo View 1Demo View 1

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Demo View 2Demo View 2