Re: Calling a program without knowing the parms

If you decide to make this an open-source project, I'd be happy to
contribute to it.   

A good open-source system for allowing you to easily write programs that
access data on the AS/400, and write client-server apps would be a great
contribution to the community, IMHO.

Furthermore, I'd probably want to make the whole thing work in FreeBSD
and Linux as well as Windows... I assume that you wouldn't have any 
objections to something like that?


On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, John Ross wrote:

> For anyone still following this and interested in helping. Here are the two 
> programs I have now. I was think of making this all open source anyway.
> http://www.netshare400.com/cgi-bin/DSPSAMP?file=QRPGLESRC&mbr=MAIN1
> and
> http://www.netshare400.com/cgi-bin/DSPSAMP?file=QRPGLESRC&mbr=SPAWN1
> 
> Now I can keep going this route and make a SPAWN2, etc for the next 
> programs I need. Which for reading a file is probably the best. But say I 
> have a program that gets the serial number of the AS/400 and I have a 
> program that gets all objects in a library using an API. I just want to 
> call the program to get the serial number and have it passed back to the PC 
> program. Then in another PC program I want to call a program to create a 
> user space, then a program to populate the user space with objects in a 
> library, then read the user space, then delete the user space.
> 
> I know I could setup one or two spawn programs to deal with this passing 
> known parameters. But this is just one example. I want to tell a PC 
> programmer to call this program on the AS/400 and format the parameters 
> this way and here is what you will get back. And not have to then tell an 
> AS/400 programmer to setup a SPAWN program to call an already written 
> AS/400 program the and send the parameter values you get back to the PC 
> program. And I do not want to use ODBC or anything from client access.
> 
> I am sorry if I keep repeating the same things over and over it is just I 
> do not know what question(s) to ask and hope something will trigger someone 
> to say yes use the pointers or no you need to (or can) do it this way.
> 
> Thanks
> John Ross
> 

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