Re: Web link in a 5250 screen - REVISITED

The best solution is to replace your green screen with a web page...
In addition to modernizing your application, it'll also make it much
easier to add links ;)

You could use RUNRMTCMD instead of STRPCCMD if you wanted to eliminate
client access from the mix -- each PC would need to have an REXEC server
running on it, but it wouldn't have to be the one that comes with CA.

For obvious reasons, the ability to remotely run a command on someone
else's PC isn't enabled by default.

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Scott Klement  http://www.scottklement.com



On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Carl Galgano wrote:

> I found the thread below regarding executing a web link from a green screen.
> I do not use Client Access and the client that I am talking to uses
> Mochasoft as their emulator.
> Anyone know of a more generic way to have a web link on a page.  What I
> would like to be able to do is have a screen of product specs, and have a
> link to view or download a pdf file that is assoicated with the data on the
> green screen.  Click on the link and the system would understand it is a PDF
> and fire up Adobe Acrobat reader and show the PDF document.
>
> Anyone have any new info.
>
>
> Carl Galgano
>
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> If your 5250 sessions are Client Access sessions, click on
> Edit...Preferences...Hot Spots and endable 3-D buttons for url's. You can
> also make F-keys clickable.
>
> Rick Nardone wrote:
> with PC Organizer started(strpco) you can, from command line, cl program,
> rpg with qcmdexc, issue command
>
> strpccmd 'start http://www.domain.com/yada/yada.html'
>
>
> we use this function here to autolaunch archived pdfs of customer bills
> driven from a green screen app. The command below launches the FILE, which
> by default uses the associated app for the type *.pdf(adobe reader)
>
> strpccmd 'start \\servername\YYYYMM\customernumber.pdf'
>