Re: How to inform a web page that a submitted job is ended

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

HTTP servers implement a request-response cycle. After the IBM i Job is
submitted, and a response is returned to the HTTP client (the browser), the
only option to get the status of the submitted Job is via polling. You can
implement asynchronous polling. But I gather that you don't want to do
that. And I don't fault you for that.

Have you considered having the submitted Job send a Text or Email message
when it completes?



On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 1:45 AM, Maria Lucia Stoppa <mlstoppa@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi all. I apologize if an answer to my question already exists but as the
> search engine is still not working I couldn't find any post on this
> subject. Also, I know very little about communications between iSeries and
> external HTTP server.
>
> The scenario consists of a web page run by an IIS HTTP server which makes a
> call to a stored procedure on our iSeries; the stored procedure is an RPGLE
> program which submits a job under QBATCH subsystem: having the job
> submitted is an obliged option because it takes a lot for it to complete.
>
> When the submitted job ends how can it inform or wake the web page to have
> the web page do something else?
>
> So far, I could only think of having the web page continuously pooling the
> iSeries until a certain condition is reached, such as a certain row on a
> table written by the submitted job before ending its execution, but I am
> pretty sure this is a very usual need and it's my lack of knowledge about
> how to approach this issue.
>
> Please, can you suggest me how to address this question or where I can find
> technical documentation on it?
>
> Thank you very much in advance
>
> Lucia
>
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