ping from a cobol program

[wossilat]

Hello,
does anyone know if it's possible to send a ping from within a cobol program to see if a client is online?
Result must be come back to cobol program.

Thanks for your help.

regards

Ludger

 

[fredericofonseca]

OS used and version
COBOL Vendor and version

Supply this and we may give a better reply.

But answer is YES for almost all of the possible combinations of recent OSes and COBOL vendors/versions

Regards

Frederico Fonseca
SysSoft Integrated Ltd

http://www.syssoft-int.com

 

[wossilat]

morning,

sorry, i have jus forgotten to post the version.
We are using acucobol workbench, dont know the version yet but it is actual.
The program must run under windows (2000 and higher) and unix/linux.

Can anyone show me an example for the call ?

Regards

Ludger

 

[3gm]

For cross-platform ping capabilities, I can think of three approaches:

1. The new C$SOCKET interface from AcuCorp. I'm not sure whether this will work, because I don't have access to the newest level of AcuCOBOL that has this available. Also, I suspect this is TCP only and not UDP.

2. Write a C subroutine that performs the ping.

3. Call the ping program directly (C$SYSTEM).

Regards.

Glenn