Re: Recommendations on i5OS socket program. -- MIDRANGE-L

So you'll need a server application. The simplest of course is a simple listen utility. This can backlog requests and process them sequentially. The downside is that it doesn't scale and if there are errors in a single request that stops with a CPF then everything grinds to a halt. There's an enormous difference in complexity with this type of program and a multi process server application. You can write the first type of application fairly easily - I have some c examples here - the second is a little harder and I don't have a free example. If you want to buy something then there are a couple I know of (if they're still selling them - there's not a big market for this stuff). Liaison used to have a scriptable server sockets app (of the multi process type) and Curbstone have another. I'm not recommending one over the other.

Tim

On 10/18/2013 5:48 PM, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:

RXS will create the output XML of the data we are reading.
We need something to read the input.
Cannot do an http post.
Currently, 20 transactions/minute, this will increase.
Will be serial.

Communications Parameters: PROTOCOL: TCP/IP Sockets
PORT: Configurable Client/Server
CHECKSUM
PREFIX LENGTH 2 binary/hexadecimal bytes containing the length of
the XML transaction

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Bronski
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 10:32 AM
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Subject: Re: Recommendations on i5OS socket program.

I'm not familiar with RXS. Is the interface with the 3rd party the piece you're trying to solve? Is this interface a pure socket write? Can it be a http post? What sort of volumes are we talking? Is it a serial or parallel process? Sorry but at this stage I've more questions than answers.

On 10/18/2013 3:23 PM, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:

We will be receiving output from a 3rd party interface program that runs on our Power7.
The output can configured to be either be PTM XML string or Token string.

We will read this output, reformat and send XML to a different 3rd party vendor using RXS.

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Bronski
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 11:15 AM
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Subject: Re: Recommendations on i5OS socket program.

What are you looking to do? Be a client, a server, talk to devices, webservices...? It can range from easy to complex.

On 10/17/2013 4:54 PM, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:

Recommendations on i5OS socket program.

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