itoolkit issues

[Desibabe]

• Node.js version: 12.16.2
• itoolkit version: 1.0.0
• IBM i version: 7.2
• XMLSERVICE version:

I am on ISeries V7.2, installed latest itoolkit from this page when I run sample js file shown on this page I get a following error message:

Error: xmlserivce-cli exited abnormally with code: 1
at Channel. (/home/xxxxx/myApp/node_modules/itoolkit/lib/transports/sshTransport.js:79:32)
at Channel.emit (events.js:310:20)
at SSH2Stream. (/home/xxxx/myApp/node_modules/ssh2/lib/Channel.js:210:14)
at SSH2Stream.emit (events.js:310:20)
at parse_CHANNEL_REQUEST (/home/xxx/myApp/node_modules/ssh2-streams/lib/ssh.js:4467:8)
at parsePacket (/home/xxxx/myApp/node_modules/ssh2-streams/lib/ssh.js:3768:12)
at SSH2Stream._transform (/home/xxxx/myApp/node_modules/ssh2-streams/lib/ssh.js:701:13)
at SSH2Stream.Transform._read (_stream_transform.js:191:10)
at SSH2Stream._read (/home/xxxx/myApp/node_modules/ssh2-streams/lib/ssh.js:253:15)
at SSH2Stream.Transform._write (_stream_transform.js:179:12)
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What could have gone wrong here?

Also, xmlserive is misspelled, should be xmlservice.

[abmusse]

Hello 👋 @Desibabe

Are you refering to the example in the main README?

const { Connection, CommandCall } = require('itoolkit');
const { parseString } = require('xml2js');

const connection = new Connection({
  transport: 'ssh',
  transportOptions: { host: 'myhost', username: 'myuser', password: 'mypassword' },
});

const command = new CommandCall({ type: 'cl', command: 'RTVJOBA USRLIBL(?) SYSLIBL(?)' });

connection.add(command);

connection.run((error, xmlOutput) => {
  if (error) {
    throw error;
  }
  parseString(xmlOutput, (parseError, result) => {
    if (parseError) {
      throw parseError;
    }
    console.log(JSON.stringify(result));
  });
});

I found that above example was missing braces }); at the end. I've opened #286 to resolve that problem.

As for Error: xmlservice-cli exited abnormally with code: 1 issue you described above. First off can you confirm that you have itoolkit-utils rpm package installed?

$ yum list installed itoolkit-utils
Installed Packages
itoolkit-utils.ppc                                       1.0.0-1    

itoolkit-utils provides xmlservice-cli binary that is required for the ssh transport

[Desibabe]

Thanks for the response. Yes, I am running the same program (itoolkit.js) and I am getting the following error message: example I used to test: node itoolkit.js /home/USER/myApp/itoolkit.js:15 throw error; ^ Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 192.168.1.1:22 at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1141:16) { errno: 'ECONNREFUSED', code: 'ECONNREFUSED', syscall: 'connect', address: '192.168.1.1', port: 22, level: 'client-socket' } itoolkit installed:

yum list installed itoolkit-utils

Installed Packages itoolkit-utils.ppc 1.0.0-1 @IBM $

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[ThePrez]

Since this uses SSH to connect to IBM i, you'll need to make sure the SSH server job is started, via STRTCPSVR *SSHD.

That being said, is 192.168.1.1 really the proper IP address of your IBM i system? That's a private IP address often used for Internet gateways, routers, or switches.
I suspect you really want to connect to 127.0.0.1 instead, since you're running on the IBM i.

[abmusse]

@Desibabe Have checked that your SSH server is running like @ThePrez suggested?

[github-actions]

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[raghunathsmusings]

This post was really helpful. I also faced the same issue as @Desibabe. I was connecting to my IBMi from a windows 10 machine. Initially I thought that there was some problem in the code. But after following suggestion from @abmusse and installing itoolkit-utils, i was able to successfully run the example.

This thread was super helpful. A hat tip to all contributors!!

[jdukleth]

@raghunathsmusings I am getting this same issue running it from Linux and installing the itoolkit-utils on the IBM server didn't help. Did you move the code to the IBM or install something on Windows to get it running from Windows? Thanks.

[abmusse]

@jdukleth

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