Re: RXSOCK

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I suspect that REXX would not be simple. As far as I know, there's no 
internal Sockets stuff. The last reference manual is from 1997. I'd say 
little further development is being done on REXX. It is still basically the 
original very good, datatype-less, text handler. There is also some 
performance trouble - it goes through a couple layers and is not good for 
really fast stuff.

Have you been to InfoCenter? The Reference and Programmer's Guide are 
there, under Programming->REXX.

You can call any CL program. Variables are shared between the REXX 
environment and the CL environment through a REXX variable pool. There are 
CL commands for reading from and writing to this pool.

If there's more for REXX in the AIX world, it might be possible to use it 
in PASE. (This is a remote possibility, I think.)

There's good Sockets support on the 400 natively. Some others on the group 
have written a number of utilities. Also, look at the FAQ on this list's 
website. This can be done in RPGLE, as well as C or C++. If you know 
Sockets, look at the Sockets API reference (also on InfoCenter, 
Programming->APIs). The sockets APIs are in the UNIX-Type APIs manual.

HTH

Vern

At 03:42 PM 3/15/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm facing a small development project, and I'm looking for the right
> tool. REXX would be perfect but I don't kow wheter it can speak TCP/IP on
> the 400. Used RXSOCK for that purpose on Linux, and I know it's
> available on other platforms too (OS/2, Windows, VM etc.) but never heard a
> REXX/400 version. Does it exist? Is there other way to use TCP/IP from
> REXX/400?
>
> TIA,
>
>         Benjamin Budai
>
>
> Btw: What is the development status of REXX/400?