RE: Invoking RPG program from a web page

>2) Convert the program to output to the browser.

Or you could read the spool file line for line after the existing pgm
completes and encompass it with <PRE></PRE> tags and push it out to a
browser.  That way you wouldn't have to modify the existing pgm you could
just write an additional pgm to grab a copy of the splf.  Now that I think
about that more this would probably work the best for you because that way
you would still have the spool file to print out if your sales people needed
it in hardcopy format.  Also if you converted the pgm to output to the
browser you would most likely have to do some nifty HTML coding to make it
look like the original report.

Aaron Bartell
SDSC;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon.Paris@hal.it [mailto:Jon.Paris@hal.it]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 10:33 AM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Invoking RPG program from a web page



>i want to show a sales inquiry on our intranet site.
>is there any way to extract the out put of that
>inquiry rpg program to the web page?

You don't say if this inquiry program is a printed report or if it
currently appears on a 5250.

If a printed report, there are three main options I can think of:

1) Use a utility that converts the spool output to a PDF file and retrieve
that in the browser (Joe Pluta has one at www.zappie.net)

2) Convert the program to output to the browser.  Personally I would use
IBM's CCGIDEV2 library (from www.easy400.ibm.it) to simplify the task or
you could buy Brad Stone's book and use the techniques and subprocedures
there to achieve the task.

3) This is a variant on 2 - and the fastest way to do it if the report is
short and uses O-spec output.  You can change the printer to a SPECIAL file
and use a generic special file handler to route the report to a browser.  I
am covering this topic in an upcoming magazine article but if you e-mail me
off-list (I won't respond to requests on the list) I will happily send you
a savefile containing some basic demonstration programs.

Jon Paris - Jon.Paris@hal.it

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