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. I do not want to use the CA
> router at all, just straight pure IP.

Lance,

You might want to see if VB supports something like the Java URL object,
which may be used to communicate with RPG programs via the OS/400 HTTP
server.  Consider the following Java applet which demonstrates the concept:

http://www.relational-data.com/rdweb/sl200/rwsockettest1.html

The operative Java code is:

// connect to the URL

URL sourceURL = new
URL("http://www.relational-data.com/rdweb/sl200/stulist.isp";);

// define an input stream

in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
     sourceURL.openStream()));

// fill the input stream

String buffer;
StringBuffer sBuffer = new StringBuffer(10000);
while(!(null==(buffer=in.readLine())))
  sBuffer.append(buffer + "\n");

// show the results in a text area

ResultsTextArea.setText(sBuffer.toString());

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com