Gary,

You asked:

> Okay, it seems like my week for asking questions *sigh*
>
> Has anyone done any work with enabling a cobol program to act as
> a listening
> process on the 3000 to handle requests from a VB application?
>
> I have a program that our support people can run to gather statistical
> information about the applications, but they have to logon to each machine
> to run it.  Now that we have grown from 2 3000s to 5 (and more to
> follow) it
> makes more sense to organize this information somehow and provide a
> convenient way to access it, so I thought of a listener process that can
> run.  Then the support people just fire up a client and get the
> information
> they want.

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Premier Software offers two programs to help folks do exactly what you're
asking.

 1. The Connection Manager - controls the client connections and brokers
instances of the listener (server).
 2. The Server Manager - encapsulates the COBOL logic and provides a simple
API for any platform (MPE, NT, UNIX). For VB users we provide Active/X
DLL's.

These programs are part of the OSCAR MPE/iX C/S Toolkit. If you want to know
more, or have a quick chat - feel free to contact me directly.

Regards,

Jonathan van den Berg
Premier Software Technologies
fon: 408-257-8757
fax: 408-253-1184
www: www.premiersoft.com