On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 22:00:51 -0600, Tim Hare wrote: >I haven't seen the Apache web server mentioned for some reason. I haven't >used Apache but on the previous Domino-based web server you could write a Rexx >CGI (Common Gateway Interface, not Computer Generated Images) program that >could be invoked via URL and retrieve whatever you want. When I fooled with >it I chose to return XML but you can return whatever the client program needs >I am sure. I don't know if Apache still support CGI but it definitely >supports _some_ way to invoke an application program via the web. The Apache >server is "free" with z/OS, too, I believe. > When I tried this many years ago:
o The Rexx CGI must reside in a UNIX directory. o That UNIX directory must be in the PATH environmant variable for Apache. It does not suffice merely to invoke that CGI via a fully-qualified path. (This is a bug in the Rexx interpreter.) o The QUERY_STRING is available via the special Rexx compound symbol, __environment. See: Using REXX and z/OS UNIX System Services Version 2 Release 3 SA23-2283-30 -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
