Re: Using HTTP\HTTPS to Transfer Files Between Servers?

[Jim Obeholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kelly:

I get your distaste for the Network server, but NFS is easy to set up,
fast, and reliable.

You might find that to be a better solution without 90% of the work.

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> File sharing is definitely a possibility.
>
> My experiences in the past (read: several years ago) have been that mapped
> network drives between the iSeries and Windows do not work reliably. More
> than once users would one morning discover they were unable to access their
> mapped drive. I would try remapping drives over and over without success.
> When we tried to get support, Microsoft would say it's an iSeries problem,
> and IBM would say it's a Microsoft problem. Maybe things have gotten
> better. But it left a bad taste in my mouth that never went away.
>
> I'm wanting to explore my possibilities with HTTP\HTTPS...to understand
> what my options are for using HTTP\HTTPS to do application-to-application
> file transfers.
>
> Thanks,
> Kelly
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Grizzly
> Malchow
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 1:43 PM
> To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] Using HTTP\HTTPS to Transfer Files Between Servers?
>
> Can you use NFS, or QNTC to connect to the Windows server? If so, what
> would prevent you from using CL, RPG, or COBOL to access the files on the
> Windows server and do all of the read/write stuff in said languages?
>
> Maybe there is more to it that I understand but you could definitely read
> the files and write the files if you can connect via a file share.  To me
> that would alleviate the overhead of doing HTTP requests to move the files
> around.
>
> With a share, from an IBI i programming standpoint, the files would be
> part of the IFS.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kelly
> Cookson
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 9:00 AM
> To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [WEB400] Using HTTP\HTTPS to Transfer Files Between Servers?
>
> We have a need to move stream files between the IBM i server and Windows
> servers.
>
> I know I can use FTP. My question here is about what is possible. Since
> FTP and HTTP are both TCP/IP protocols, it should be possible to move files
> between the IBM i server and Windows servers using HTTP\HTTPS.
>
> Suppose I have an Apache web serve set up on the IBM i server and an IIS
> web server set up on a Windows server. Here are the processes I want to
> accomplish.
>
> FROM IBM i TO WINDOWS (INITIATED ON IBM i) 1. A COBOL or RPG program
> populates a DB2/400 physical file with data based on business logic.
> 2. A CL program uses the CPYTOIMPF command to create a stream file in the
> IFS based on the physical file.
> 3. A process on the IBM i sends a PUT or POST HTTP request to the IIS web
> server in order to move the file to the Windows server for storage.
> 4. A CL program uses the RMVLNK command to delete the file from the IFS.
> How do I achieve step 3 above?
>
> FROM WINDOWS to IBM i (INITIATED ON IBM i) Here is another process I want
> to achieve:
> 1. A process on the IBM i sends a GET HTTP request to an IIS web server to
> get a file and store it in the IFS.
> 2. A CL program uses the CPYFRMIMPF command to upload the file into a
> DB2/400 physical file.
> 3. A COBOL or RPG program then processes the DB2/400 file using business
> logic.
> How do I achieve step 1 above?
>
> I suspect I will be able to do the above processes with Node.JS on the IBM
> i. But I don't have Node.JS yet. So what other ways might I accomplish step
> 3 in the first process and step 1 in the second process?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kelly Cookson
> IT Project Leader
> Dot Foods, Inc.
> 1.217.773.4486 ext. 12676
> kcookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:kcookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
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