Re: PC java pgm to/from AS400 RPG pgm

Steve,

may be I am not following your question but we use hotspots in 5250 to launch web PDF documents from our F1=Help window in our applications. The "green-screen" window displays one to many URL's. By going to Edit>Preferences>Hotspots... in your 5250 sessions you can check the Execute URL parameter to activate. Can you display the URL on your green screens to click on or do you have to pass the URL because of an action taken?

Gregg



Steve Moland wrote:

I'm working on an application where a user selects something off a 5250 display file screen which drops a message into AS400 Data queue on which a Java app on the PC is waiting.

When the Java app sees the queue entry it takes a prepared URL from the queue entry and launches a minimal browser. When the pieces are manually started it seems to work pretty good and is quite fast. However that is 1 AS400 job on 1 PC.

Scaled up there will be 190 possible AS400 user jobs and 190 possible PCs. To handle that I planned to have Keyed data Queue so each PC will know when to launch the browser call.

Does that sound like it should work efficiently?

Will the fact that some of the PC's will be coming into the AS400 thru a VPN influence the simple logic of what I've planned.

Is there a "slicker'er" way of having the PC Java app talk to an AS400 pgm and if so how would 190 processes times 2 know who is talking to who? (not using data queues that is)

I'm a Java newbie but there is an experience Java person working on the PC side. He's only seen pictures of ISeries boxes however.

Steve Moland
Access Paths Inc
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Londonderry NH 03053
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