Re: Advanced Job Scheduler

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Actually, John, the frequency is up to you as to how often you pull from
the Google Calendar (as well as which calendar).

OK, that's what I thought, but it's still the "fixed polling initiated
from the i" model of communication, rather than the "listener on the i
receives events initiated externally at any time" model.

Pushing can be done from the IBM i app or any other device.

Yes, you can use the email "reminder" facilities as well. That's part of
the application when you're pushing an event from the IBM i with this
utility.

Maybe I wasn't clear enough. When I said...

"Would making use of its e-mail alerts so that it asynchronously
pushes to the i be too fragile?"

...I really meant pushes *TO* the i. In other words, set up a listener
on the i to receive e-mails from Google Calendar. Those e-mails would
be Google Calendar's way of telling the i what jobs to run.

My main concern about that is just that e-mail may be less reliable
than an API call.

John Y.