Re: Running Commands on multiple systems

"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 07/27/2016
05:46:15 PM:

The one thing I did really wish I could easily do that did not work well
oevr ssh was the running of SQL on each LPAR. For instance, if I wanted

to

collect PTF information on each system it's just a matter of running a

SQL

statement on each machine and collating the output. I could not find

(and I

am still looking for) a simple way of doing this.

It is "simple" enough to use a single RPG program and embedded SQL
to access multiple databases (one local and the rest remote) for the
purpose of collating such information. You just have to set up the
database directory entries required using the WRKRDBDIRE command. I do
this for both DB/2 UDB on the IBM i and for other (non-DRDA) databases
such as MS SQL Server, etc. Of course, the non-DRDA databases require a
gateway program running on the IBM i. I use Dieter's AppServer4RPG (found
at SourceForge) for this. The following are my remote database directory
entries. The last three are IBM i systems.

Remote
Entry Location Text

DONALD *ARDPGM Test connection via SF >
DONALD2 *ARDPGM Test connection via MS >
RIGHTFAX *ARDPGM RightFax MS SQLserver >
RIGHTFAX2 *ARDPGM RightFax MS SQLserver >
TCACCESS *ARDPGM Mainframe tcAccess Dat >
WINDEV1 *LOCAL Entry added by system
WINQA1 winqa1.winwholesale.co > WISE Quality Assurance >
WINSRV1 winsrv1.winwholesale.c > WISE Production System

Sincerely,

Dave Clark