Mel Rothman's CGIDEV2 CGI service program (cgisrvpgm2 in library cgidev2) provides tools that make it easier to write, test, debug, and maintain ILE-RPG CGI programs.

CGIDEV2 requires now OS/400 V5R2 or subsequent.

For a detail description of CGIDEV2 components and features, please read Mel's readme.

• Parsing the input string
  The parsing is based on the QzhbCgiParse API.
  

  Max. number of input variables	32,767
  Max. length of an input variable	32,767 (special procedure for 64,000)
  Max. number of occurrences of the same input variable	8,200

• Externally defined HTML output - physical source file

  Source record length	240 (132 compatible)
  Section name prefix	default = /$ user defined 10 char prefixes
  Section name max length	50
  Variable name delimiters	default = /%   %/ user defined 10 char delimiters
  Variable name max length	30
  Variable value max length	1000 char (special procedure for 16Mb)
  Max. number of sections	1000
  Max. number of unique variables in the source	16,221 across all sections
  Max. number of occurrences of variables in the source	32,767
• Externally defined HTML output - IFS stream files
  Externally defined HTML outputs can be stored as PC files (stream files) in directories of the Integrated File System. By using this approach
  • it would be possible design external HTML scripts using HTML authoring tools, such as Microsoft Front Page, IBM Websphere Studio, or other.
  Directories containing externally defined HTML
  • do not require any HTTP directive to be accessed
  • for performance reasons, it is recommended be separate from directories accessed from the HTTP server, such as directories containing static HTML pages and/or images.