RE: Ideas to get a serial number

["Pete Helgren" <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan,Walden,Scott,

Those are all good ideas.  I am shying away from the ODBC route because of
the component requirements. I'd like to use just components that I can
install or already exist on the PC.  I would guess that FTP fits that
requirement since I am pretty certain every windows PC supports FTP as a
client.

I was hoping that there was already some small, overlooked, Windows/iSeries
application that would allow that data to be transferred, maybe even as a
message, back to the PC using existing infrastructure. Not sure if you can
have FTP return a status message that is "custom" without modifying the FTP
server.  I was hoping to find some way to do it without much coding.

I was going to say that the CGI route was also overkill.  Lots of coding for
just 7 characters of info to be retrieved but, the more I think about it, it
might be worth the effort. I could build something simple that I can use for
other applications.  So I'll take a look at the CGI stuff you have on your
site, Scott, and the sockets tutorial and see what I can come up with.

Walden, I haven't moved to .NET primarily because I am trying to move away
from MS technologies.  My VB is app is 5 years old and, although I want to
re-write it, when I do it will be with Java and not .NET.  I can probably
find some sockets examples using VB.

Thanks for all your suggestions.  More learning and coding to do....

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 10:05 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Ideas to get a serial number

> If you wanted to return an iSeries serial number to a PC running a VB 
> app and avoid using any iSeries Access components, how would you do it?

Write a simple (ILE RPG) CGI program.  Have the VB program make a simple web
request...
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