Re: Using HTTP\HTTPS to Transfer Files Between Servers?

Hi, Kelly.

Both of these can be done using GETURI. The communications part that is.
What you do with the data afterwards it looks like you have a good handle
on things.

GETURI is an HTTP/HTTPS client that can make these types of requests. You
can check it out at www.bvstools.com/geturi.html.

And, as always, you're welcome to contact me offline if you need help
getting this going.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

We have a need to move stream files between the IBM i server and Windows
servers.

I know I can use FTP. My question here is about what is possible. Since
FTP and HTTP are both TCP/IP protocols, it should be possible to move files
between the IBM i server and Windows servers using HTTP\HTTPS.

Suppose I have an Apache web serve set up on the IBM i server and an IIS
web server set up on a Windows server. Here are the processes I want to
accomplish.

FROM IBM i TO WINDOWS (INITIATED ON IBM i)
1. A COBOL or RPG program populates a DB2/400 physical file with data
based on business logic.
2. A CL program uses the CPYTOIMPF command to create a stream file in the
IFS based on the physical file.
3. A process on the IBM i sends a PUT or POST HTTP request to the IIS web
server in order to move the file to the Windows server for storage.
4. A CL program uses the RMVLNK command to delete the file from the IFS.
How do I achieve step 3 above?

FROM WINDOWS to IBM i (INITIATED ON IBM i)
Here is another process I want to achieve:
1. A process on the IBM i sends a GET HTTP request to an IIS web server to
get a file and store it in the IFS.
2. A CL program uses the CPYFRMIMPF command to upload the file into a
DB2/400 physical file.
3. A COBOL or RPG program then processes the DB2/400 file using business
logic.
How do I achieve step 1 above?

I suspect I will be able to do the above processes with Node.JS on the IBM
i. But I don't have Node.JS yet. So what other ways might I accomplish step
3 in the first process and step 1 in the second process?

Thanks,

Kelly Cookson
IT Project Leader
Dot Foods, Inc.
1.217.773.4486 ext. 12676
kcookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:kcookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


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