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Re: Recommendations on i5OS socket program.

So what does "we need a program to read XML output from a 3rd party
program" mean? How is the program sending the output? (Writing to a file,
socket server running on the iSeries)

How does the RXS program communicate? How do you talk to it. Is that
program running on the iSeries or PC?

If it is not socket oriented, why are you asking about sockets?

Basically you are going to have to give us something more to be of any use
to you.


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Tim Bronski <tim.bronski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Bronski
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 10:32 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
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.


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Bronski
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 11:15 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
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.

Thank You
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