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On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:09 PM, John R. Smith, Jr.
<smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The part we are stumped on is
ideas for how to have the iSeries initiate the Unix job real time.
I agree with the folks who are suggesting Web services.
If I were doing this myself from scratch (i.e. the Unix side doesn't
already have a Web services server), I think I would use RPC instead.
It's not hugely different from Web services, but there are quick
Python recipes (right in the Python documentation!) to make setting
this up ludicrously simple. (My definition of "ludicrously simple" is
"even *I* can do it". ;) You don't have to use Python, you can find
recipes in plenty of languages. I just like to highlight Python
because it doesn't get much exposure in the i community, and it makes
lots of tasks surprisingly simple.
In either case (Web services or RPC), you don't have a "check for
return data; and if not there, wait and check again" step. The
communication is two-way: The i makes the request to the Unix box, the
Unix box sends a response containing the desired result. Very clean,
simple, and fast.
John Y.
midrange.com
