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[amit4u79]

Hi,

I searched the forum but did not find any match relevant to my query. Does anyone have a sample rexx to POST data from rexx to HTTP site. My requirement is I have to send data in a PS(Physical sequential) file formatted in a certain way to a HTTP site.

Thanks for your help.
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[dbzTHEdinosauer]

i would suggest that you google for REXX forums on the net. there are many,,,
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[expat]

When I upload web pages etc. etc. for my wifes website, I use ftp.
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[amit4u79]

Hi expat...thanks for your response....yes that is what we are currently doing in our environment. Let me take some time out to explain what is currently being done and what is the enhancement required :

Current processing :
Every 30 mins we have a JCL which executes a REXX exec. The rexx exec creates a report file and then we use an NDM JCL to upload this report file to a certain destination "C:/xx/xx". Now on the open system side, there is a scheduler which runs every 20 mins and fills up the URL page with the information in the report file. This is working fine, but there is delay of 20 mins everytime and if we decrease the scheduler timing, the load to the system increases which is undesirable.

Enhanced processing :
Instead of using the REXX to put the generated report at a certain destination, we are planning to POST the report data in a certain format directly on the URL(HTTP address). This will ensure the URL is populated always with the fresh data. Also, one other way is on the open system(browser) side to have some process by which they know at the instant the file is updated and then post it to the URL. But since I am a mainframe guy do not have much idea, neither has the guy on the other side has any idea as to how to handle this.

Any reference or help is kindly sought after. Thanks again for all your responses/help.

Regards,
- Amit.
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[semigeezer]

I'm not sure I understand the difference here between using an HTTP POST request and just uploading the file via FTP since it appears that the report formatting is occurring on the PC in both cases and being sent to the host from there. Running a file checking thread on the PC is extremely inexpensive (and is only a few lines of OORexx). I do that all the time checking every second or half second and it doesn't slow things down at all.

But obviously I am missing something (maybe that the PC is doing no data manipulation, but still it is just used as an easy transfer point...) None the less, you could have the JCL invoke a Unix process (BPXBATCH or similar) to use any of the Unix tools available to you. I think there is an available port of wget which might support POST. Or you could do what you are doing now but also use the ISPF Workstation Agent or something similar like SSH to kick off the FTP at the workstation immediately from the host.