RE: How to call an AS/400 batch program from an Oracle PL/SQL pro cedure

Thanks! It was a great help.

Regards,
Ali Asgar Juzer
Wipro Technologies, Pune
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vernon Hamberg
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 4:16 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: How to call an AS/400 batch program from an Oracle PL/SQL
pro cedure

Ali - this will run the program, but your procedure will need to wait.
Of
course, this solution assumes you can run FTP from a stored procedure.
But
if you want the iSeries program to start and then your procedure keeps
going, the syntax would be more like

quote rcmd sbmjob cmd(call cobolpgm)

The FTP approach also assumes that remote command is allowed - it might
not
be, as it is a huge security hole.

Now it really does not matter that the program was written in COBOL vs.
another language - almost never, probably. Just as it does not matter
whether a PC executable was written using Delphi or VB or C or compiled
BASIC.

On the other hand, Oracle has a gateway product for AS/400 or iSeries -
extra cost, of course, right? That  lets you communicate with any
iSeries
from Oracle. In an SQL CALL statement you can do whatever you want.
E.g.,
there is a 400 program called QCMDEXC that can execute any 400 command,
such as SBMJOB.

There is also probably ODBC or JDBC. Not sure how those interface with
PL/SQL.

HTH

At 04:59 AM 5/4/2005, you wrote:


> >I want to call an AS/400 batch program (written in cobol) from an
Oracle
> >PL/SQL procedure. Any ideas?
>
>Ali
>         presumably this is from another computer.
>One possible solution is to use FTP.
>
>connect to the AS/400 with user & password then
>try something like:
>quote rcmd call cobolpgm
>
>HTH
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