Re: Call RPGLE program on another iSeries

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 10:01 AM, Richard Schoen
<Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John, not sure if there was a Python option available from your response or if you're just extolling the virtues of Python ? (which I also find pretty cool and easy to use.) 😉

I guess if those are the choices, then in that post I was just
extolling. But actually, I was only trying to make the point that
"what's easiest is what you already know", and Python was not even
meant as a recommendation, merely as an example to illustrate that
point.

There *are* of course Python options available. In my opinion, the
easiest to set up and use is the XML-RPC included in Python's standard
library. This is what I most often use myself where I work, when I
want simple request-response communication between our internal PCs
and our IBM i. As I mentioned in another post, the examples in the
documentation can be set up in minutes, and then you can adjust from
there. If you use iSeriesPython as the Python which lives on the
serving machine, it's very easy to wrap a *PGM object on the server
and expose it to the XML-RPC interface.

John Y.