Hi, You can implement this with relative ease in CICS transactions that use CICS WEB statements. CICS has extensive builtin support for these kind op applications. We are implementing restful APIs that way.
Regardz, Fred! > 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ATTENTION: The information in this e-mail is confidential and only meant for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, don't use or disclose it in any way. Please let the sender know and delete the message immediately. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
