Hi, I have a "how can I do that" type of question. This has probably been happening for a long time, but I have not had to deal with it before now. I know that there are probably vendor written ways, but the programmers want to "roll their own method" if possible as the first choice. Maybe I'm just too close to this and I am missing something simple.
I know that IBM added the web enablement toolkit to provide the ability for applications under z/OS to access data that might be on some web server out in the net to get information or data, but is there a built-in way to do this in the other direction, getting the data from the mainframe directly back to the web based application? For instance, if I'm running in a web application under windows and I need to know if some specific item was updated on z/OS and what it was updated to, is there a method or API that I can use to "ask" the mainframe to run a program that will do the check for me dynamically and pass me back the solution? The reason I ask is that we have a user group that moved "off" the mainframe but they want to be able to get a date and time from a file that is still on the mainframe. That file is updated periodically within a completely unrelated mainframe application. The entire file is huge (it's actually within an Adabas file) and they just want the two fields from one record, which needs to be processed by a specific program on the mainframe the would read the file, do the computations on the record and then pass the solution (which is basically just a date and time) back to the windows server that the user is now running on who needs that piece of information. What would be the simplest or best way to accomplish that? Thanks for your help ahead of time. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
