Re: iSeries and Unix handshaking

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'd agree that a web service or SQL stored procedure would be a better
solution...

However, assuming neither are available and that you really have to "kick
off a job" on the Unix box.

Then I suggest starting a remote execution daemon (REXECD) on the Unix box.
  Your Unix OS probably has one already, if not there are open source ones.

After that, it's a simple matter of using the IBM i build in remote
execution client (REXEC) aka RUNRMTCMD.

Note that REXE is a plain text service, so passwords are sent unencrypted.
If that's a problem, you'd want to look at ssh.

Charles

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:09 PM, John R. Smith, Jr. <
smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We have series of programs that run on the iSeries.  They need to kick off
> a
> job on a Unix box which does some calculations (we don't have the data on
> the iSeries) and sends the results back.  The part we are stumped on is
> ideas for how to have the iSeries initiate the Unix job real time.  This
> really must be real time (they don't even want a 5 second delay) because
> the
> user is waiting on the return data to complete their job.
>
>
>
> 1)      iSeries user job builds data request to be processed by Unix
>
> 2)      Unix job processes the data request and returns the results to the
> iSeries
>
> 3)      iSeries user job check for return data and if not there, delays for
> a few seconds and then tries again.
>
>
>
> There might be programs in between these steps to load or unload a file,
> etc. but these are the critical pieces.
>
>
>
> Any thoughts?
>
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