RE: iSeries to Windows socket connection -- MIDRANGE-L

We used Scott's excellent tutorial to do exactly what you require. We
adapted it and had it all working in two days.
We had our own guy to write the PC (server) end. We wrote it in Delphi,
quiet a small program.
We have not made the PC program a service, we just have an autostarted job
that stays minimised so that we could 'see' whats happening.

Also you may want to check Scotts tutorial on the IFS. That gives you
options to transfer data from Physical files or the IFS.

Regards

Ian Patterson
Grange Management Consultants
tel 01947 880458
www.grange-systems.co.uk




-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Emilio Padilla -
Sistemática Int.
Sent: 19 August 2003 15:23
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: iSeries to Windows socket connection


Check out the RPG IV Socket tutorial by Scott Klement.  It's the best I had
ever read.

http://klement.dstorm.net/rpg/socktut/

EAPT

-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Kern [mailto:gkern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 8:35 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: iSeries to Windows socket connection

I need to create a windows socket connection from an iSeries to a window
server. The goal is to take iSeries data (some in real time, and some in
batch) and send it to the windows box which will be running a proprietary
electronic medical records application. Initially I'll only be uploading the
data to the windows box.

My first question to the software vender was how do I push the iSeries data
to the windows system? When I mentioned FTP to the techies for the windows
server, they could only respond that all I needed to do was use TCP and
create a socket connection to a specific port at the IP address that they
would supply to me. (Actually I don't think they even understood that FTP
was a protocol that runs under TCP - all it did was confuse them - but
that's a topic for another day.)

I've never used a socket to connect to a windows box, so how do I proceed?
What is the mechanism that will 'push' the data from the iSeries to the
windows box?

I found a Redbook (SG245190 - V4 TCP/IP for AS/400 - More Cool Things Than
Ever) with a chapter titled "Implementing the AS/400 System as a Socks
Client". It shows how to config socks via iSeries Navigator. Is this the
right place to start?

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.


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