RE: TCP/IP Server concepts (RPGLE)

While I've always used C for sockets work I think you should be able to
do it in RPG. You need to spawn the client processing jobs from the
server job (SBMJOB). The client processor will then send its job id back
to the main server (usually via a data queue). The server will then
givedescriptor to that job and the client processing job will
takedescriptor and do what it has to do. I think all these functions are
available to RPG users.

Tim   

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Gibbs [SMTP:David.Gibbs@IL.US.MKS.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 12:27 PM
> To:   'Midrange Mailing List'
> Cc:   Brad Sommerfeld
> Subject:      TCP/IP Server concepts (RPGLE)
> 
> Ok, here's a question for all you "Bare Metal" Programmers out
> there...
>  
> I've got a simple TCP/IP server written in V3R2 RPGLE and it works ...
> but I
> need to make the process more robust.
>  
> I need my server program to be able to handle multiple clients at the
> same
> time... but in a "Stateful" manner (i.e., the server has to do a whole
> bunch
> of work for the client and keep track of what is going on).  Kinda
> like
> evoking an ICF comms program and carrying on a conversation (send,
> receive,
> send receive, etc).
>  
> From my research, I've determined that if the server were written in
> C... on
> Unix... I would use the "fork()" operation to detach from the current
> process into a child process and the socket would handed off to the
> child.
> The server program would then allocate another socket and go back into
> a
> "listen()" mode.
>  
> Is this basic logic possible to do in V3R2 RPGLE?  Am I biting off
> more than
> I can chew?  
>  
> Thanks!
>  
> david
>  
> 
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> 
> David Gibbs
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> 
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