Re: Internet Connection Sensor

[Luis Rodriguez <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jerry,

Maybe with a PING? Don't know it it can be done with an API...
Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries


On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:27 AM, <GKern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Not sure if this is the correct place to ask so I cross posted in midrange
> and rpg-l:
>
> Yesterday our internet provider had an outage that affected their
> customers within a large portion of the city. Consequently we were
> affected too.
>
> We have an RPG application that accepts credit card payments and then uses
> Payware Transact from Verifhone to process the payment. But when the
> internet connection died we didn't get any response from the transactions
> that were in process when the internet connection died.
>
> So the question becomes this: Is there a way (from RPG) to detect that the
> internet connection is active before submitting the transaction? I know
> that this wouldn't be foolproof because the internet connection could be
> lost immediately after a successful 'detection attempt'. But this would at
> least enable us to detect and notify users when the internet connection is
> down, which would limit the number of transactions that would not receive
> a response.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards, Jerry
>
> Gerald Kern - MIS Project Leader
> Lotus Notes/Domino Administrator
> IBM Certified RPG IV Developer
> The Toledo Clinic, Inc.
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