Not sure if this is exactly what you are referring to, but I did something
like that. I wrote an app that would get messages from QHST and broadcast to
lists of recipients based on the kind of job and the severity. For example,
if a job received a message about a program cancelling, then it would be
forwarded to the programmer for that application. It used a NEP to read the
messages as they hit QSYSOPR.
Tom
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On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 2:16 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Is RPG dying
From: Chamara Withanachchi
some developers they say RPG is dying ...
Some evidence suggest that more people are doing more things with RPG than
at any time in its history. I should admit that I don't have the broadest
perspective, but one key to keeping RPG alive may be to keep doing new and
innovative things with it, and sharing examples of our work.
One idea that I've been interested in is that of message multi-casting,
where messages are delivered to multiple listeners simultaneously so that
everyone is on the same page at the same time, so to speak. This kind of
interface could be useful for virtual meetings. Chat messages come to mind,
but the idea could be expanded to lots of other kinds of messages, such as
instructions for browsers to draw on virtual whiteboards, or advance to a
slide in a slide show; polls, tests, push audio & video content to browsers,
and other interactive stuff.
http://www.radile.com/rdweb/temp/meet.html ;
Another idea I'm interested in is that of managed file transfers via HTTP,
FTP, SMTP, and Web service interfaces:
http://www.radile.com/rdweb/temp/sifdocs.html
These are largely concept applications. I still need to fill in a lot of
blanks. But they show a possible expanding role for RPG.
-Nathan.
midrange.com
