Doubt on OFS.SOURCE

Hi All,

As globus consultants we all know the famous application OFS.SOURCE.
In that there is one field SOURCE.TYPE, we know that we can give BATCH and TELNET.

BATCH - It runs in background.
TELNET - It runs in online.

I came to know that there are 2 more damn options namely SESSION and GLOBUS.

Do any one know about its usage?

Your R&D is more welcome.
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M A L A I

Hi Hill(Malai),

I know how to use SOURCE type GLOBUS. when we set the OFS.SOURCE type as GLOBUS, we normally call OFS.GLOBUS.MANAGER. The advantage about this is It inputs the transaction in the present session itself.

There needs to be 2 arguments passed to OFS.GLOBUS.MANAGER. The first one is the OFS.SOURCE Id, the second one is the OFS message. THe intresting thing about this routine is we need not set any OFS common variables all these are set by the OFS.GLOBUS.MANAGER

Regarging the SESSION mode...I really dunno...any 2 cents on this topic would be welcome...
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NJOY LIFE TO THE FULLEST

Its quite confusing. You told that when we use GLOBUS as source type it will use its own session.

If iam not wrong it will use the current USER and COMPANY as its sign on process.

Do we really need user information in the OFS while using GLOBUS?

Have you test this?
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M A L A I

Hi hILL,

I have tested this and is ofcourse working fine. Sadly, we have to provide the user information and company Id. Here is a sample routine.

SUBROUTINE CALL.OFS
$INSERT I_COMMON
$INSERT I_EQUATE

CALL OFS.GLOBUS.MANAGER('TEST','SECTOR,VER/I/PROCESS,KARTHIK2/123456/US0010001,88,DESCRIPTION:1:1=Myway,SHORT.NAME:1:1=HighWay
RETURN
END

Jus take this and paste in your env, its going to work fine.

Iron,

Its fantastic, this could solve many problems.

I have one more doubt on this.

Whether this will suport XML format of OFS messages?

And also do sone research on SESSION too..
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M A L A I

Well what the document says is that it supports XML format.

But I think there are reasons to belive the document because its only in OFS.SOURCE we specify XML/OFS and the common variables are set internally. In ideal case it shud support...


Defly, I will do some R&D on SESSION stuff.
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NJOY LIFE TO THE FULLEST

session is used when you are using browser. it is for the xml format.
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takoor