RE: accessing PF from freebsd machine with perl

The freebsd box is already in place, I'm stuck with it for the
indeterminate future.  Our iSeries is a 170 so it does not have the
horsepower to run the iSeries webserver and do everything else I need it
to do.

What we need to do is write information as entered by drivers into a pf
on our 400.....which should be simple enough if I can find a way to do
it easily..perl would be my first choice...I do not know Java and since
this is the only project I have coming down the river for something like
this, I have no desire to take the time to learn Java, especially not
for one project.

The ODBC for unix might be the answer to all this....


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 4:37 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: accessing PF from freebsd machine with perl



> Actually, I think somebody hit the nail on the head and I missed 
> something when I was thinking. Use some perl ODBC library to read and 
> write to AS/400 files directly.

IBM doesn't create ODBC drivers fro FreeBSD. You could use JDBC (Java's 
version of ODBC) but then you'd need some way for the Perl program to
talk 
to the Java program, which brings us right back to sockets.

> mostly solved and doesn't involve writing some custom server, no 
> matter
> how much one might like to (Hi Scott, I liked your tutorial)

You don't necessarily need to write a new server. You could use the 
iSeries Web server or you could use inetd, etc. A dedicated server would

be the most efficient way, but it really depends on the requirements of 
the project. Hopefully we'll learn more about them soon.

Glad you liked the tutorial.