| Programming languages |
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The PSPSOCK modules are developed in several
ILE languages - in particular ILE/C for low-level sockets
communications. These modules are provided in binding
directories (*BNDDIR objects).The application programs you
write bind in these modules. The procedures in our
documentation show you how to do this. At least one ILE
program per service is required. The ILE module you write
may be in any ILE language. Our example code is in ILE/RPG.
This ILE program may call traditional OPM or other ILE
programs written in any language. |
| Demonstration services |
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PSPSOCK allows 99,999 services to be defined.
We provide two simple demonstration services. The first is
an 'echo server' that just returns the data it receives. The
second is a 'currency description lookup server' e.g. if you
send it the value USD then it returns United
States Dollar. We provide complete ILE/RPG client and
server code for these two services. You can also see Java
client code for the two demonstration services here
and here. |
| Service management |
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PSPSOCK includes a display function that
shows all services and logged messages for the services. You
can edit the services or create new ones. Each service has
around 15 variables - most of which we provide sensible
defaults for. All variables are explained in PSPSOCK
documentation. Other PSPSOCK commands allow you to
start/stop/test services from your own CL programs. |
| Service audit |
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Every service has built-in versioning. In
other words whenever you change a PSPSOCK service record, a
new record for that service is created and the old version
is retained. You can scroll though these version records to
see how the service definition has changed over time. Every
record has standard audit fields - timestamp and user
profile name. |
| Service logging |
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You can set the logging level for each
service e.g. raise the logging level to see more detailed
messages for a service when it runs. All logged messages are
externally defined in the PUSRMSG message file. |
| Documentation |
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Please look at our PSPSOCK
User Guide. |
