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Conversion Guide
The iWEB Converter is the module in charge for giving 5250 applications the ability to run also in WEB mode.
To perform such conversion, iWEB needs the sources of programs, display files, menus, and panel groups be available.
However, the sources are just read, they are not changed. Therefore there is no need to duplicate the original sources.
Indeed, duplicating objects and sources and submitting to conversion the clonies, instead of the original pieces, results to a lot of manual
interventions (the reason of this will be soon explained). It is highly recommended to submit to conversion the original objects.
You have 2 ways to convert displays, menus and programs:
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Use the Converter Command ==> IWEB/WEBCOMPILE
The command IWEB/WEBCOMPILE works from a SOURCE member.
It copies&converts the source and then prompts/runs the IBM compilation cmd.
You can use this command as a PDM user option:
Do IWEB/PDMOPT to create the PDM user option "IW" then
use the option "IW" instead of the opt-14 or opt-15
to convert&compile your sources in objects and make them both 5250 and iWeb enabled.
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Use the Converter Wizard from a browser ==> http://n.n.n.n:8008
(where n.n.n.n is the IP or URL of your iSeries)
The Wizard converter works from an OBJECT library.
It start with/analyses all PROGRAM OBJECT references to get automatically all
correlated libraries, objects and sources needed to convert the application.
If information are missing, it will prompt the user before submiting the conversion.
The Wizard will ask you a new "target library" to contain only converted pgm.
Therefore you will have to add this "target library" on the top of the *LIBL
to run your iWeb-converted application.
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