Re: Advanced Job Scheduler

John,

Sorry for the misunderstanding. I get it now.

I don't know why you couldn't use something to trap the email. But then
you'd have to use the IBM i as the mail server to receive emails and I
wouldn't care for that. *shudder*

You can call an API every 5 minutes or so to poll for new commands. It's a
very light footprint of a call.

Google also has Push notifications for GMail and Calendar events that you
could set up fairly easily as well. That would probably be the best bet.
Just make sure you're server is running to accept those requests. :)

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 5:16 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Actually, John, the frequency is up to you as to how often you pull from
the Google Calendar (as well as which calendar).

OK, that's what I thought, but it's still the "fixed polling initiated
from the i" model of communication, rather than the "listener on the i
receives events initiated externally at any time" model.

Pushing can be done from the IBM i app or any other device.

Yes, you can use the email "reminder" facilities as well. That's part of
the application when you're pushing an event from the IBM i with this
utility.

Maybe I wasn't clear enough. When I said...

"Would making use of its e-mail alerts so that it asynchronously
pushes to the i be too fragile?"

...I really meant pushes *TO* the i. In other words, set up a listener
on the i to receive e-mails from Google Calendar. Those e-mails would
be Google Calendar's way of telling the i what jobs to run.

My main concern about that is just that e-mail may be less reliable
than an API call.

John Y.
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