Re: Getting data from banks

[Adam West <adamster@xxxxxxxxx>]

So all it would be is run the CPYTOIMPF ? you just have to know that something was really sent.

--- On Tue, 6/24/08, Francis Lapeyre <flapeyre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Francis Lapeyre <flapeyre@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Getting data from banks
To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 2:45 PM

A Google search for "currency rates data" comes up with a bunch of
services,
but they'll cost you.

What looks fairly easy (you can get it as a .csv file, and then, presumably,
use CPYFRMIMPF to put it into a physical file) is

http://www.xe.com/dfs/product.php



  On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Adam Glauser
<adamglauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Adam West wrote:
> > Is it doable to have an RPG program go to a web site and get the
rates or
> it must be done via an FTP or XML process?
>
> I'm not really sure what you mean by "an XML process".  HTTP
and FTP are
> communication protocols while HTML and XML are markup languages, or ways
> of formatting data.  Web sites of the sort that a human would usually
> look at in a browser are usually HTML documents retrieved using HTTP.
> Web services often return XML documents using HTTP.
>
> FTP is just another way of getting data from one place to another.  You
> might get XML, CSV, field-delimited or some other type of document from
> an FTP server.
>
> If you want to try to extract rates from an HTML page (aka web site), I
> only have one word of advice ... don't!  If you can get the data in
> another format it would likely be much easier on you.  Parsing HTML is
> painful compared to parsing XML or a delimited file (the type you might
> get via FTP).
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