Web Query and how one often must return to The Old Days Of ICT

Well well,

Just got a question or two from the management at the company I work for : Can we use WebQuery/400 to generate graphical overviews and spreadsheets on PC's using data on the AS/400(oooooppppsss, sorry ; System I...).

Of course you can and the graphical Query Application/Workbench/DevelopersSuite/LatestBuzzword(...) is actually free if you already use the old version.

So now it's back to the JavaScript fast-track tutorials because I haven't seen that shit in years. Apparently the WebQuery/400 software generates PHP which in turn generates JavaScript/JSON. JSON in turn, is the latest preferred DB-access method in browsers nowadays and is supported fully in FF 3.5 and IE 8.0.

Mind you : I probably have the idea above completely wrong and the experienced JavaScript coders howling and shedding tears of laughter right now...

Oh well, One Keeps Learning and that is, I think, perhaps the main purpose of life.

To be continued...