Re: RPG Screen to URL Link

Is an alias file a choice?  Duplicate what  www.tinyurl.com does?

Paul Holm wrote:

Thanks for the reply.  We don't want to prereq Ops Navigator so STRPCCMD
isn't an option.  Most of our developers are not familar with web
programming so we want to allow them to use their traditional RPG tools and
then call our web based URLs which would handle generic lookups / CRUD apps,
with GUI.  We are passing on the URL, SQL statements that define the
intended user operation.  The web app takes the sql and executes fine  but
the problem still is the green screen URL taking up so much room.

I'll keep investigating options.  Thanks,  Paul






"Scott Klement" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:20060719162804.I16578@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The goal is to enable RPG / 5250 screen to be able to link to

complementary

web applications.  This is possible today by simply putting a URL like:
http://CNN.COM on a emulator screen (with URL links enabled
Edit-Preferences-URL) but again the problem is that URLs can become very
long and not friendly to end users.

A few thoughts:

a) If you made this a Web application (which can be done with RPG) you
could actually use HTML and use nromal HTML links to accomplish your goal.

b) If you want to stay with green screen, you could have a function key
"F8 = Open Link" or something like that.  When the user hits F8, your RPG
program could use STRPCCMD to open the link.  (OR could call a CL program
that runs STRPCCMD)

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