Re: Cereal ports (Was node.js)

["Larry \"DrFranken\" Bolhuis" <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RS233 is an extension I have not heard of. I will subtract 1. :-)

This can be done with the Perle IOLAN devices. Effectively IBM i 
communicates to the IOLAN box with IP and the IOLAN box outputs RS232. 
If you were to put a modem on that port for example you can connect to 
the modem and enter AT commands and read responses. The Serial ports are 
of course fully configurable for speed bitness etc.  They sell the boxes 
with different numbers of ports. We have one in place with 8 ports for 
example.

So your program interacts with the line just as if it were a serial port 
on IBM i but the physical connection is to the iOLAN device.

This is IBM supported since about i 7.2.

	- DrF

On 8/31/2022 1:26 PM, Christopher Bipes wrote:
> We have a system that uses RS233 ports that our iSeries speaks to.  Old proprietary  system that does not support IP connectivity.  PITA.
>
> Oh I did get the YUM to work.  Took some configuration on our firewall to allow access to the IBM sites as well as an upgrade of YUM and install of the CA store.
>
> But I now have Node.js installed:
> nodejs.ppc64                            8.9.3-0                 ibm
> nodejs10.ppc64                       10.24.1-3             ibm
> nodejs12.ppc64                        12.22.11-1          ibm
>   nodejs14.ppc64                       14.19.1-1            ibm
>   nodever.noarch                       1.0.0-4                 ibm
>
> Chris Bipes
> Director of Information Services
> CrossCheck, Inc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Roberto José Etcheverry Romero
> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 9:41 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: node.js
>
> Hi Christopher,
> What serial ports do you need and why would you need to natively access them from the i?
>
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 at 13:18, Christopher Bipes <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote: