Re: VB and iSeries data

["Nathan M. Andelin" <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Lance Gillespie" <lgillespie@cvwd.org>
> I want to write a program in VB that communicates with
> my iSeries to return data.

Lance,

If you're interested in communicating via socket, you might consider testing
with an OS/400 HTTP Server to handle requests from your VB program.
Consider the following link:

http://www.relational-data.com/rdweb/sl200/stulist.isp

This link doesn't return HTML - just a short list of records where fields
are delimited by double quotes, and separated by commas.  One of my
colleagues requested this link to test an alternative to his comparatively
poor performing JDBC connection from a Java applet.  You'd be welcome to use
the link to test your VB program.

After the socket is open, just send the following string:

GET /rdweb/sl200/stulist.isp HTTP/1.1

Your VB program will receive a text response that includes a few HTTP
Headers (which you can ignore) followed a double carriage-return line-feed
sequence (HEX 0D0A0D0A), followed by the real database records.

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com