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I wrote a RPG program to search the customer. It receives two parms, the first is data about the customer (name, phone, birthday, etc) and the second is the link where to send the data.
like this:
lookfor="Raul Alberto Jager"  (from other link, or an input fiel in a form)
sendto="hhtp://server/directory/macro?data=watever&customernumber="
function(in char(60) lookfor, in char(250) sendto)
EXEC /QSYS.LIB/...SEARCH.PGM (RPG)

The search program generates a list with all the customers that meet the lookfor criteria, with a link that sends the user to the sendto + number

It is unlikely that you can use my program, but you can use the same structure in yours.
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Larry Kleinman wrote:

Does anyone have an idea how to handle the following:

Several different net.data macros ask the user to enter a customer number as input for various inquiries (all items bought by a customer, all sales reps who handle a customer, all invoices sent to a customer, etc.) We have a pretty good customer search program written in RPG which has been webfaced. We'd like to have the different net.data macros "call" the webfaced customer search, have the user click on the desired customer, then have the customer number "returned" to the net.data macro.

I'm thinking that the net.data macro could include "?calling program=MACRO1" as part of the URL that calls the webfaced search, and then have the RPG program somehow interrogate this to find the name of the net.data macro that called it. (Is this in an environment variable, and can i get that from a webfaced program?) If that is possible, then adding a HREF in the webfaced program that goes back to the appropriate net.data macro should be fairly easy.

Larry Kleinman
Kleinman Associates, Inc.
212-949-6469
203-255-4100



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