Re: 5250 Emulator to Web Application Link

Paul Holm wrote:
> Specifically, I want to be able to dynamically link 5250 data from an
> emulator such as a part number and launch a browser session passing in that
> part# to the web application.  The web application would use the part# to do
> further lookup, provide images, etc.    Other examples would be passing
> address to google maps, etc.  

Just to clarify ... you want some gesture on the 5250 screen to invoke a
browser at a specific URL?

Although not invoking a browser, we've accomplished this by running a
small server program on the workstation that listens for a connection
from the iSeries.  When the appropriately authenticated connection &
data is received, we invoke code on the client that does stuff.

You could make that code just invoke the default browser with the
appropriate URL.

david