Re: QSH scripting

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do you have PASE installed (extra cost and ordering for V5R1 and below)? 
This is even more like a traditional Unix environment - it emulates AIX - 
and you can run anything in it that has the execute-flag turned on, with a 
call to a 400 program. CALL QP2SHELL, I think. It has a number of the 
traditional shells in it - csh, ksh, bash - IIRC.

Otherwise, you can run things in QShell by putting the command into the QSH 
command

QSH CMD('some QShell function; another one')

and there you go - automatable.

Just give your Unix person the docs on the QShell utilities, or let him/her 
go to it in normal Unix fashion in PASE.

HTH
Vern

At 12:11 PM 2/11/2004 -0600, you wrote:
> A customer is in the process of replacing their AS/400 running the CGC
> (Computer Guidance Corporation) applications with an Oracle system.
> They've already got some stuff automated for payroll, in that they can
> push timecards to the Oracle box for processing and check writing. The A/P
> department has been buying custom forms for their checks for many years.
>
> What they want to do now is this:
> Since the Oracle package does not yet have a good payables module, they
> want to process A/P all the way through, with the exception of printing
> checks. The spool file is to be sent to the Oracle box, where it will be
> fed through a product called OptioPrint. This is essentially a forms
> management package for a Unix environment.
>
> Everything is set to go on the Oracle box side, and commands entered thru
> QSH actually worked as expected. The Unix programmer wants to build a
> script to be able to automate the process.