[Info-vax] First ship poll: When will the first native x86-64 compilers ship ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/18/2022 8:42 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2022-04-18 kl. 14:17, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
>> On 4/18/2022 4:23 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>> Den 2022-04-17 kl. 19:00, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
>>>> I cannot see how that CICS web server can figure that out with
>>>> no code changes.
>>>
>>> No code changes in what code? There was no code to change. This
>>> was new web-enabled code. What do you mean with a "code change"?
>>  >
>>> Well, the Cobol code calls the APis that CWS provides, of course.
>>
>> I was referring to this by Bill:
>>
>> "COBOL does CICS and CICS does the web.  No extra code required."
>>
>> If the Cobol code make calls that hook it into the web server then
>> it is a totally different story.
> 
> No idea what Bill wrote about. We used CWS, which is not a full blown
> "web server", as I understand. It just gives the services needed for
> CICS applications to respond to requests comming "from the web".
> 
> I might wery well be that Bill used CWS without knowing it.
> 
> And note this didn't use SOAP/XML/JSON or such, just usual GET/POST
> HTTP calls from browsers. And CWS presented the CGI data to the
> Cobol applications. Worked just fine. But it was 15-20 years ago.

application/x-www-form-urlencoded is usually associated with web
pages but it can be used by web services, but definitely old
fashioned in 2022.

Arne