But I thought NET/IPC is no longer sold/supported by HP.  Not
matter how good,
I would stay away from an obsolete system unless I already had a
lot of code
in it.

My opinion.

Nick D.

Duane Percox wrote:
>
> Ewart writes (in part):
>
> > [snipped]
> > Can anyone suggest books, manuals, websites that address the subject
> > of using Cobol integrated with the internet, how to use CGI
> > Interfaces with Cobol, programing NETIPC from Cobol and so forth.
> > This has to be the way to go for then we would have systems with all
> > the modern attributes and the traditional strengths of Cobol,
> > reliable, working, easily maintained.  Where do we start?
> > Regards,
>
> Let me give you some ideas. Please keep in mind that I am referencing
> some things that I did, that we sell. However, my intent is not that
> you buy these things, but that you use the fact they exist and their
> references as a guide to determine what is possible.
>
> 1. Checkout the hp jazz web site for info on cobol and web servers that
>    play in the posix domain: http://jazz.external.hp.com/
>    Many sites have successfully installed Apache and got it to work
>    with cobol.
>
> 2. Get a copy of the HP NetIPC 3000/XL Programmer's Reference Manual. It
>    contains all the info you need to learn how to do NetIPC from cobol.
>    The biggest mental stumbling block is not how to call the intrinsics,
>    but understanding how listeners/servers work and the efficient way to
>    make them work for you.
>
> 3. There are some freeware API abstractions of NetIPC available and
>    floating around. Maybe the author(s) will chime in and give you a
>    reference or two.
>
> 4. I wrote an API set that abstracts NetIPC to make it even easier for
>    cobol programmers. While this API is not free, you can get a free
> copy
>    of the manual from our web site. This would help you understand what
>    is possible with NetIPC and how to develop listeners/servers/clients
>    that run on your 3k and work seamlessly across intra/inter-nets.
>
>    For the Acrobat format: http://qwebs.qss.com/refpdf.qsdk.html
>    For the html format: http://qwebs.qss.com/refhtml.qsdk.html
>
> 5. I wrote a web server in cobol that works in the mpe domain (not
> posix).
>    This also is not free, but I have a pretty good description of the
>    cgi interface documented in a freely available html file which can be
>    found at this location: http://qwebs.qss.com/qwebsdcg.qwebs.html
>    This might give you more ideas and information on how this all can
> fit
>    together. Keep in mind this is all from my server's viewpoint and
> might
>    not be the same as the posix server's viewpoint.
>
>    You might also want to check out the basic description of the server
>    at this address: http://qwebs.qss.com/ which contains some
> interesting
>    documents on how its done and why I did it.
>
> 6. Keep in mind that because the HP cobol compiler has been extended to
> be
>    able to call system intrinsics it can be treated as a more capable
> language
>    than it might be on other platforms. Except for a few cases, you can
> do most
>    anything in cobol you desire. Of course, whether its the right tool
> for
>    that particular job is up to you to determine.
>
> Duane Percox
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