Re: Calling CL Programs from an ASP Webpage

In the C librarys there is "SYSTEM" function that executes any command.
After the "write" to your table do: system('SBMJOB CMD(CALL STEP3PGM)')

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Brian Piotrowski wrote:

Thanks for the info, gents.

I'd like to call the program directly, but there's an awful lot of
calculations performed.  Running it as an interactive program would kill
the performance on our iSeries.

After thinking about it last night, my idea was to do the following:

1) User enters the required information into the parameters (starting
point, number of lots between quarters.
2) When user accepts inputs, data is written to a table.  I need to
write these values to the table because subsequent calculations will
take place every five minutes following the input (until the parameters
are changed).
3) Upon writing the data, the system will invoke the CL program, which
in turn will submit the RPG calculation program to batch.  The RPG
calculation program will then read the values from the parameter table
and perform the appropriate calculations.

I have #1 and #2 covered.  However, I'm still unsure of how to make the
webpage call the CL program.  Does anyone have any sample code they can
share to accomplish this task?

Thanks!

Brian.

-----Original Message-----

From: Walden H. Leverich [mailto:WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 5:06 PM

To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Calling CL Programs from an ASP Webpage

Brian,

From ASP you can call any iSeries program. The OLEDB driver has some

messed up syntax (enclosing the call in brackets {} if I recall
correctly) that lets you call anything you want. Or, simply describe the
CL to the system as a external stored proc and call it like any other
stored proc. Also, if the program that computes the values is an RPG
program, why not call that directly?

-Walden

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