I tested with Starvision... But, No Luck Peter C. Chris Bartram <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:F4B1826B1A21D211AEC5006008207AF4021140D4@dogbert.csillc.com... > In <[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] writes: > > > 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. > > While you can certainly write a network server in COBOL (look to the NetIPC > programmers manual for examples) you'll likely save yourself alot of time and > trouble by using either: > 1) Apache and invoking your program via a CGI or PERL script > 2) Pick up the QWEBS server which integrates easily (and very efficiently) > with COBOL code on the host > > Then your clients just use a web browser (which they probably all already have > ) rather than needing a custom client to talk to your custom server. > > -Chris Bartram >