Automated Currency Exchange Load

[Bill <brobins3d@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just thought I'd let everyone with a BPCS installation know that you can 
create a program that will automatically load the exchange rate 
information on the schedule you wish by querying a website service.

I recently queried the Midrange list for help in this task and was 
pointed to Scott Klement's utility and example package he provides as a 
service to the iSeries community.  You can find the package at 
http://www.scottklement.com/httpapi/ .  Inside is an example program to 
retrieve and display to screen the current exchange rate information for 
a given from and to currency set.

I took the program and performed a slight modification so that it would 
return the exchange rate instead of displaying it.  I then wrote another 
program that reads the GCML01 file skipping USD and a couple of other 
inactive currencies and then performing the calls to translate to and 
from USD.

I'd provide the programs I wrote, but there's some customizations there 
that would not be of use to anyone.  The programming is really so 
simple, that any iSeries programmer should be able to produce a working 
version in an hour or two.

Bill