Re: iSeries and Unix handshaking

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not used it for this purpose but Scott Klement’s UNIXCMD (http://www.scottklement.com/unixcmd/) might be useful here - at least to take care of some of the plumbing. It is designed for PASE/QSH connections but from there you could initiate the job etc. 

On the other hand can’t you just do this by initiating the jobs via a direct FTP link? In which case FTPAPI may be what you need (http://www.scottklement.com/ftpapi/).

 
Jon Paris

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On 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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