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I guess that was the question I was asking (would it matter if there
were shared objects?)
It's just that I remember someone telling me about not being abled to
use these on iSeries.

Perhaps the issue related to whether the program was statically or
dynamically linked at compile time.
Then, presuming the analogy with how we bind our RPG, a dynamically
linked object would have problems if it was shipped assuming that the
targeted installation already supported the shared objects. Maybe that
was the problem.

Anyway, I don't yet have a problem. I'll have to wait until the distro
arrives. The pSeries guys are totally ignorant of iSeries.

Thanks anyway. I just wanted to know if there was some special feature
for communicating with a separate AIX partition, but apparently not.

Cheers, Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Wednesday, 16 January 2008 2:16 p.m.
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: RPG calling into PASE


I'm a little bit lost here. Why would it matter if you have shared
objects? Have you had problems with shared object code in PASE
applications before?

If you do decide to use a separate partition (or a separate computer)
then you'd want to use a tool like RUNRMTCMD, rexec() API, or perhaps
something like a web service to invoke the AIX code from your i5/OS
software. (Or, you could write a custom TCP server... it really depends

on the details of the project...)

But, I can't think of any reason (from your description, anyway) why
PASE wouldn't work.

Have you looked at the IBM assessment tool, etc, for porting to PASE?
http://tinyurl.com/yknvtc


Peter Connell wrote:
I have made calls from RPG to run Unix type programs via QP2SHELL or
QP2SHELL2. For example, I use this to run a zip routine as well as
several of the Unix type routines that come shipped.

I am entertaining a similar approach to call a licensed post coding
routine which presently runs on a pSeries. In essence, I wish to keep
it simple by simply porting the binary code.

This question is not strictly RPG so I beg some tolerance.
If the product, as it runs on the pSeries, involves shared objects, is

it even possible to run it in the iSeries PASE environment?

If not, then does anyone have experience in making calls from RPG on a

regular iSeries partition into a native Unix partition configured on
the same box?

Peter


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