RE: Starting an AS/400 program from mainframe

Peter,

Please post this in midrange-l, but also specify how you communicate between
the AS/400 and the mainframe.

Thanks.

Jim Langston

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Peter.Colpaert@honda-eu.com
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 7:02 AM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Starting an AS/400 program from mainframe




Hi group,

we are experiencing rather big difficulties in coming up with a feasible
solution for the following challenge.

On our mainframe computer, certain information is made available for
collection
from the AS/400.  The communication to retrieve this information can only be
initiated by the AS/400.

We do not want to schedule the receiving program so that it checks every now
and
then whether information is available, and the users do not want to start it
themselves.

Therefore, what we need is a way to start the receiving program from the
mainframe, if and when information is available.

This information is not record-based, so that writing directly to the AS/400
and
using file triggering will not work.

To add further difficulties to this, the AS/400 is at V3R2M0, and upgrading
is
(for the near and medium-far future) not an option.

Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Peter Colpaert
Analyst-Programmer
Honda Europe NV - Belgium
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