Re: Sockets Programming

On Fri, 15 June 2001, "Chuck Morehead" wrote:

> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does anyone know about any good tool kits for 
> sockets programming on the AS/400?</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here is the goal.&nbsp; We have a process that 
> creates spooled files.&nbsp; These spooled files contain info that we want to 
> send to another system.&nbsp; The other system (UNIX) has an interface engine 
> that will support parsing out the data, but requires that the info be sent on 
>a 
> specific port using TCP/IP.</FONT></DIV>

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Chuck:

One of the best "toolkits" comes from the IBM Custom Technology Center. (Just 
do a web search on 'ibm custom technology center
'.) For a few years, they've provided a free set of easy to install and use 
custom sockets APIs; at least up to late last year -- haven't checked recently.

These make it VERY easy to write sockets clients even in CL. If you want to 
write a sockets server, they'll also help; but the fee becomes significant. 
(Still way cheaper than developing from scratch.) I have had very good results 
in a couple large installations and found it far easier than coding my own, 
although I have coded servers and clients without them in ILE RPG.

Tom Liotta

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