Tom asks:
> I have been tasked with finding out if we can run Apache web
> server on our
> HPe3000 system.  Knowing that Apache comes with MPE, I began
> teaching myself
> how to configure and run it.  I now have an operational home page and
> hyperlinks to two additional HTML pages.  However, the reason for this
> exploration was to find out if we could extract some data
> from a database and send it to the requester.  ...

If you're really into Cobol, you may want to take a peek at QWEBS from QSS.

http://qwebs.qss.com/

It's an MPE web server that makes calling MPE routines painless.

The other option is to separate out your processes:

Data Server
    |
    V
Page Creation (ASP or JSP)
    |
    V
   CSS
    |
    V
 Browser

In this model, you write a server that just serves data but is not concerned
with HTML.  You write a VB or Java module that communicates with the data
server and you embed the results in the html page.  (When you create the
object, it makes a connection with the data server.  You write getter
routines to request data and paste them into the ASP or JSP template.)
Finally, you use cascading style sheets to format your pages.

The benefits are:
- You can keep your data server behind a firewall (if HIPPA is a concern)
- You can run multiple web servers on less expensive computers
- You can run multiple data servers for different divisions or for better
performance
- You can use Apache or IIS
- You don't need a Cobol programmer to change web pages
- You can change the look of the pages by applying a different style sheet

Again, there's some nice Cobol socket routines available from QSS:
http://www.qss.com/Sales/Qsdk/pqsdk.htm

If Java is your thing, you can check out ADBC (http://www.advnetsys.com/)

HTH,

Mark W.

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