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This type of setup where the customer sends an XML document, your program processes it and spits out a result XML document is typically called a "Web service".
If you want to talk amore about it, you might try the WEB400 mailing list. You might also want to do some research on web services and the software that's available to set them up. That'll help you get going.
Have a customer asking to place orders via xml files rather than the user entry cgi web screens running on our iSeries using Apache http server. The web screens accept multiple pages of data, then generate an order#. They need that order number back. From many years ago, we also have ftp server receiving orders and creating return files with order numbers they can get. But this cust asking why they can't talk directly thru our http server, place the order and get a response. I assume I need a cgi pgm that will authenticate, rcv, calc, respond, but trying to understand how to format a response. At V5r3 and not (yet) running websphere server. Perhaps a few hundred orders a day like this..
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