Re: 5250 Emulator to Web Application Link

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle.

That's KEWL.

Ron Power
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Hello,
if I right uderstand, just place a string like http://www.google.ca
on the 5250 screen and double click on it.


RPower@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> You can do this:
> STRPCCMD PCCMD('"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Iexplore.exe" 
> http://www.google.ca')
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> from a CL program.  You could have a program do that from QCMDEXEC or 
> something.   It launches the browser to the specified web address.
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> HTH,
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> Ron Power
> Programmer
> Information Services
> City Of St. John's, NL
> P.O. Box 908
> St. John's, NL
> A1C 5M2
> 709-576-8132
> rpower@xxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.stjohns.ca/
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> Paul Holm wrote:
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>> 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 
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> that
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>> part# to the web application.  The web application would use the part# 
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> to do
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>> further lookup, provide images, etc.    Other examples would be passing
>> address to google maps, etc. 
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> Just to clarify ... you want some gesture on the 5250 screen to invoke a
> browser at a specific URL?
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> 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.
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> You could make that code just invoke the default browser with the
> appropriate URL.
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> david
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