iSeries™ Access for Web provides a portal application that runs in a portal environment, such as WebSphere® Portal or IBM® Workplace™ Services Express.
The portal application is a set of portlets that provide functions for accessing i5/OS™ resources. Each portlet is accessed as part of a page. The portlets can be combined on pages to allow access to multiple functions at the same time. Each portlet can appear on a page multiple times. The portlets can be combined on pages with portlets from other applications to integrate information from i5/OS with data from other information sources.
The portal application can provide access to i5/OS resources on multiple servers. Each portlet on a page can access i5/OS resources on a different server. If a portlet appears on a page multiple times, each instance of the portlet can access a different server.
Web serving environment
The combination of an HTTP server and a portal server, such as WebSphere Portal, provides the Web serving environment for the portal application provided by iSeries Access for Web. The HTTP server receives client HTTP requests from a browser and routes them to the portal environment for processing.
For
the most current list of supported portal environments, refer to the Web
page for iSeries Access
for Web. This page will be updated with information about any additional
Portal environments supported.