RE: iSeries to Windows socket connection

I would guess the only reason Cyndi's socket program has to run as a service
is that the  socket program must always be active on the pc and a service is
the best way, in her case, to do that.  An always active, listening socket
program in windows can also run in a standalone window.

When I wrote a pc to as400 socket appl a few years back I wrote the socket
code in C++ as a DLL and provided some high level functions that were called
from VB code.  If I was doing it again I would write it all in VB as a COM
activex class.

-Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Cyndi Bradberry
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 6:55 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: iSeries to Windows socket connection


Yes. We used the Sorcerer's Guide as the template for all our socket
programs.  Just remember that you will need to translate to ASCII you data
before you send it to the PC. We did have to have a PC specialist create a
DLL with winsock in it and that is registered on the PC. In our case we are
supporting a webserver (IIS), and winsock had to run as a service. (I don't
have to understand it, it just works ;-).  Have fun with this.

Cyndi B.
Boise, ID
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