Web Connection User's Guide
When creating a VisualAge web application for MVS, you can use all of the
parts in the Web Connection Parts and Web Form Parts categories. All
visual parts, those parts that are visible on the web page, are placed on an
HTML Page part. All web parts that receive or store input, usually from
a previous page, must be placed within an HTML Form part. The web
application can also access VSAM and non-VSAM data sets, DB2, MQSeries,
TCP/IP, CICS transactions, and other programs written in COBOL, C, or
PL/I.

You can use Smalltalk to write program logic that does any of the
following:
- Starts a CICS transaction
- Retrieves input from a web page
- Reads from or writes to an MVS database
- Calls non-Smalltalk programs
- Maintains session data
- Passes results to web parts for display.
Some examples of what you can do with VisualAge Smalltalk and VisualAge
Smalltalk Server for MVS are:
- Create a new application that uses centralized MVS databases and
interfaces with the user via a web browser.
- Call existing MVS COBOL application modules from a new web application
front-end using the COBOL language feature of VisualAge Smalltalk.
- Port an existing web connection application on Windows, OS/2, or Unix that did remote access to MVS databases or transactions and change
the remote access to direct access.
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