MiddleMan from MiniSoft works great like this.  You get OLE automation
servers to connect to on the client, and a generic listener that will allow
you to write your own servers in whatever language you want.  I've done a
whole bunch of VB/Cobol projects like this.






"Paveza, Gary" <[log in to unmask]> on 09/02/99 10:54:01 AM

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Subject:  TCP server and COBOL




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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Gary L. Paveza, Jr.
Technical Support Specialist
All opinions are mine and not those of my employer