Re: STRTCPSVR not starting up an http server instance in startup program.

In recent and maybe not-even-so-recent versions of the OS (V5R1 at least), you can tell the system to start HTTP server instances automatically. There is a global setting for this that you can set by issuing the CHGHTTPA command and set the AUTOSTART to *YES.

You can set each instance individually by using the port 2001 browser interface for managing HTTP server instances. There you can say to use the global setting or override it. So if the global is *YES, you can say *NO for a certain instance. And vice versa.

The config file QUSRSYS/QATMHINSTC has a member for each instance and the record there has a tag that is set by what you select in the management interface.

So jump back to the future and get rid of those things in QSTRUP and use the "new" features. (I'm smiling at Dan across the cube wall, BTW!)

HTH
Vern

On 7/16/2010 5:33 PM, Dan Kimmel wrote:

John,

TCP Server starts up asynchronously. That is, you call STRTCP from your
QSTRUP and the next line in your QSTRUP executes while TCP server begins
to start up on its own. If that next line is STRTCPSVR SERVER(*HTTP) the
http server instance won't find TCP active. I've found a couple ways to
handle this. 1) put in a DLYJOB after the STRTCP or 2) put the STRTCPSVR
SERVER(*HTTP) down at the end of the QSTRUP so other start up tasks fill
the time until TCP is available.

Your http server jobs are themselves submitted from the STRTCPSVR
command under user profile QTMHHTTP. All the object authorities acrue to
user QTMHHTP1. Look for logs with those profiles. The jobs will run (or
attempt to run) in subsystem QUSRWRK or QSYSWRK or QHTTPSVR depending on
what version of the OS you're using. You should check that subsystem is
started in your QSTRUP before calling STRTCPSVR although the job should
just sit in the JOBQ until the subsystem starts.

Dan Kimmel


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Rusling
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 3:35 PM
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Subject: STRTCPSVR not starting up an http server instance in startup
program.

I have added a line to our startup CL program to start an http server,
it looks like this -



STRTCPSVR SERVER(*HTTP) HTTPSVR(CGIPROD '-vv')



Anyway, this http server does not start up, automatically which is my
intention.



STRTCP is run ahead of it, in the startup program, afaik that works
fine, ie



MONMSG MSGID(CPF0000)

STRTCP

MONMSG MSGID(CPF0000)

DLYJOB DLY(15)



Is there a server, that should be started ahead of strtcpsvr for this to
work right?



Any tips are greatly appreciated, in the absence of that, I plan to move
the strtcpsvr command to the very very end of the startup cl program in
hopes of correcting the issue.



Thanks,



John


John Rusling
iSeries Developer - JBLC
651 659-2856

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