Re: Best way to monitor for Running Node server on IBM i

[B Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

cool, I'll check it out... but a web service just seems easier especially
since this project involves JWTs and I don't need to worry about
EBCDIC/ASCII this way (maybe I don't with your app either... I will check
it out though... reading from stdout doesn't sound fun but who knows!)




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On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 12:26 PM Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Not sure if this interests you, but you can run your node app as a CL
> command and then consume the STDOUT results from the outfile. Bout as close
> as you'll ever get to NodeILE most likely 😊  And no web server needed if
> you call it from a CGI or other web app. Runs synchronously.
> https://github.com/richardschoen/NodeOni
>
> A more generic QSHELL caller, pretty much does the same but generified for
> any QSH/PASE command line app.
> https://github.com/richardschoen/QshOni
>
> Source is in the save file. Feel free to modify and contribute.
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen
> Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
> Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>
> message: 2
> date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:27:52 -0600
> from: B Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: Best way to monitor for Running Node server on IBM i
>
> Nope.. this is just an internal web service that I want running all the
> time.  PM2 works great to start it, restart it, check logs, etc.  I haven't
> experienced what you have with it.
>
> I'm using it as a web service for Node to do some things that just aren't
> that feasible in RPG.  NodeILE would be cool to use instead of having a
> server running all the time.  But I don't see a way to call node from RPG
> or ILE languages directly, which would be cool.  (yes, I'm aware of 3rd
> party products and data queues, etc).  But maybe there's something new in
> the works with V7R3 and up that I've missed?
>
> RPG --- >  call node webservice using GETURI and return JSON to it.
>
> That's what I'm doing now with the web service.  Works great.  I just want
> to make sure the node job is up and running.  With apache it's easy to
> check/restart if needed by checking by job name.
>
>
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