Re: Network connectivity

What Rob said is good stuff. As another alternative, I've used FTP to
access data on a PC server from an RPG program. Obviously, it requires
someone setting up FTP on the PC, and the RPG program doing a little more,
but it does work.




From: Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 06/09/2016 07:53 AM
Subject: Re: Network connectivity
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Some people use WRKLNK '/QNTC/MYPC/MYSHARE' and are quite happy with it.
I've had issues with things like share names longer than ?12? characters,
etc.
I use NFS, or Network File System, instead. Little more to set up but
very reliable.
That, and if you decide to use Linux in the future for your file server
you'll be more experienced.

Then again, have you thought about adding BLOB (binary large object)
columns into your database?


Rob Berendt
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From: "Luedke, Pat" <PLuedke@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: 06/09/2016 07:39 AM
Subject: Network connectivity
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In a previous life, I was able to store documents on the IFS and retrieve
them for display from an RPG program. In my current position, we "rent"
space on a SystemI and are not allowed to use the IFS for document
storage. We store relevant PDFs, scanned documents etc in folders on
our Windows network. I would like to be able to retrieve these
documents from an RPG program in the same manner as I did from the IFS.
Since I have no hands on or extended permissions on the SystemI and can do
no configuring, is this even a possibility?

Patricia Luedke
Senior Programmer/Analyst


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