Re: accessing PF from freebsd machine with perl

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Douglas W. Palme wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone could tell me if this is possible.  We have a
> freebsd machine which we are using for some web apps, typically cgi's with
> perl, we'd like to be able to write some records from that on our 170, using
> perl if possible.....

I don't have a wonderful solution, but here's what I think.

The freebsd box (I hope, I run linux, not freebsd) can mount some share on
the AS/400. By share, I mean a shared directory in the IFS using netserver
stuff, AKA Windows sharing, AKA CIFS, AKA NetBIOS et al. After doing the
mount, the share will look to the freebsd box like local storage.

The CGI can write to some file or files under this mount. Of course, it
will really be writing to a stream file in the IFS. You probably have
several parallel instances of your CGI stuff running, so be careful two
things don't try to write to the same file.

After the CGI is done writing, the AS/400 could CPYFRMSTMF to some
physical under QSYS.

Hopefully that will at least give you some ideas. I think I'd do something
like each CGI writes to some file somewhere and after it's done, it
renames the file to indicate it's done writing. The 'done' files are
transferred somehow to the AS/400 where they're added to physical files.
Good luck.