Re: Batch automate connecting to AS400's

["Andre Nortje" <andre.nortje@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> At 7:11 PM 7/17/97, Andre Nortje wrote:
> >I would like to write a CL/RPG set of programs that will run in
> >batch. At 4 different locations (other AS400's) nightly jobs are
> >run that produce files to upload to a central AS400.

Paul E Musselman wrote...

> Do you really -need- to use passthrough to get your data?  Why not
> set up the remote AS/400s to automatically transmit at 06h30?  They
> can use send net file and SNADS to have your data arrive
> automatically.  After the file is transmitted, send a net message to
> a given queue and let the central '400 receive the net file.

Many thanks to all that replied. 

Ok, I have some constraints - Only one telephone line at Head office 
with one modem attached. No system operators. So I thought I have to 
fetch the data rather than let the remote systems send the data. I 
use SNDNETF extensively, via QSNADS connection, but not TCP/IP. 

AS400-1 can STRPASTHR to AS400-2, then ENDPASTHR. This already
works. But can you set up SNADS in such a way so that AS400-2
STRPASTHR to AS400-1 without an existing connection? 

If branch-1 passthrough to central AS400 at 06h30, and branch-2 then 
passthrough at 06h35, and the connection to branch-1 is still active, 
a message is sometimes send to the system operator message queue that 
request a reply. So I though hold the distribution queues at the 
branches, run the day-end job, and let head office control the 
pasthrough, release the queues, pull the data until complete, 
disconnect, and try the next branch.

REMEMBER I HAVE 4 BRANCHES TO COLLECT DATA FROM, and I do not have a 
system operator that sit there answering messages. 


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