Re: 5250 Emulator to Web Application Link

You can do this:
STRPCCMD PCCMD('"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Iexplore.exe" 
http://www.google.ca')

from a CL program.  You could have a program do that from QCMDEXEC or 
something.   It launches the browser to the specified web address.

HTH,

Ron Power
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P.O. Box 908
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709-576-8132
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Paul Holm wrote:
> Specifically, I want to be able to dynamically link 5250 data from an
> emulator such as a part number and launch a browser session passing in 
that
> part# to the web application.  The web application would use the part# 
to do
> further lookup, provide images, etc.    Other examples would be passing
> address to google maps, etc. 

Just to clarify ... you want some gesture on the 5250 screen to invoke a
browser at a specific URL?

Although not invoking a browser, we've accomplished this by running a
small server program on the workstation that listens for a connection
from the iSeries.  When the appropriately authenticated connection &
data is received, we invoke code on the client that does stuff.

You could make that code just invoke the default browser with the
appropriate URL.

david