© 2009 Binary Computer Services Ltd Rational Software 1 EGL/DB2 Web Query Integration Binary Computer Services Limited

© 2009 Binary Computer Services Ltd Rational Software 2 Who are Binary Company formed in 1979 as a Software House –Consultancy –Development –Training –Web Integration IBM Business Partner since 1984 –S/38, S/36, AS/400, iSeries and i5 –DB2 –IBM Host Integration Products Over 7 years experience Both Internet and Intranet Implementations –DB2 Web Query –Enterprise Modernisation Other Markets –Constructions (Construction*2000) –Business Intelligences (BO Crystal Xcelsius)

© 2009 Binary Computer Services Ltd Rational Software 3 IBM has delivered a System i web based query and report writing program product that replaces IBM Query for iSeries (Query/400) Base Program Product –Report Assistant –Graph Assistant –Power Painter –Spreadsheet integration –Web-enable Query/400 reports –Federated queries (DB2 for i5/OS) Requires V5R4 Additional Chargeable IBM Features –Active Reports (Disconnected) –On Line Analytical Processing –Developer’s Workbench –Report Broker –Software Developers Tool Kit (SDK) –Additional Modules planned IBM DB2 Web Query for System i Powered By Information Builders For more details, refer to:

© 2009 Binary Computer Services Ltd Rational Software 4 Report Broker Overview Set up reports to be scheduled. Distribute via , printer or DB2 web Query folder. ‘Burst reports’ to the relevant people. Set dates that reports cannot be run on i.e. holidays. Set up distribution lists

© 2009 Binary Computer Services Ltd Rational Software 5 SDK Overview The SDK comprises of up to 6 wsdl files. Allows integration into your existing applications like EGL and HATS. Invoke DB2 Web Query from a CL command line.

© 2009 Binary Computer Services Ltd Rational Software 6 What can be achieved with the SDK?

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© 2009 Binary Computer Services Ltd Rational Software 9 DB2 Web Query SDK Generate the WSDL file. Consume the web service in EGL. If populating drop down lists XML files will need to be written out. Read the XML files and populate the dropdown lists. The combo boxes are dynamically loaded when a value is selected in the previous dropdown. When the ‘run’ button is clicked, this calls the web service passing parameters. The output is returned to the screen.

© 2009 Binary Computer Services Ltd Rational Software 10 DB2 Web Query SDK Continued The web service signs on to DB2 web query and calls the report you have specified. If the procedure called is a graph then another web service must be called to retrieve the image in a byte array. Because the original web service will return the location of the image (not the image itself).

© 2009 Binary Computer Services Ltd Rational Software 11 Report Broker integration Report broker can also be called with web services. A web service must be called to retrieve a security token from the scheduler and stored. Another web service can then be called using the security token and the schedule name, to retrieve the schedule information. Finally the schedule can then be run from another web service call.

© 2009 Binary Computer Services Ltd Rational Software 12 Demo

© 2009 Binary Computer Services Ltd Rational Software 13 Summary Powerful Reporting tool from IBM on “i” –12,000 System i customers in 18 th months Easy integration into EGL applications –Graphs –Reports –Output to Excel, PDF etc Control Report Broker within an EGL application –Distribute Reports automatically via & share folders.

© 2009 Binary Computer Services Ltd Rational Software 14 Q & A Binary Computer Services Ltd