Re: PC java pgm to/from AS400 RPG pgm

The AS400 user screen displays a list of parts with selection numbers next
to them (1, 2, 3, etc.)

Some items in the list will have a special character indicating that a
webpage exists containing a graphic image of the part.

The user can key a selection number or position the cursor on that line,
then press a Command key.

If an image has been requested, then a really big and really ugly encrypted
URL is created and passed to the browser,

The browser window is special in that it only has a close button on it and
no other controls. The displayed web page does have a PRINT link. To a human
the content of the URLs are meaningless.

Steve

"Gregg Willow" <gregg.willow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
in message news:464492D4.50202@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Steve,

may be I am not following your question but we use hotspots in 5250 to
launch web PDF documents from our F1=Help window in our applications.
The "green-screen" window displays one to many URL's. By going to
Edit>Preferences>Hotspots... in your 5250 sessions you can check the
Execute URL parameter to activate. Can you display the URL on your green
screens to click on or do you have to pass the URL because of an action
taken?

Gregg



Steve Moland wrote:

I'm working on an application where a user selects something off a 5250
display file screen which drops a message into AS400 Data queue on which
a
Java app on the PC is waiting.

When the Java app sees the queue entry it takes a prepared URL from the
queue entry and launches a minimal browser. When the pieces are manually
started it seems to work pretty good and is quite fast. However that is 1
AS400 job on 1 PC.

Scaled up there will be 190 possible AS400 user jobs and 190 possible
PCs.
To handle that I planned to have Keyed data Queue so each PC will know
when
to launch the browser call.

Does that sound like it should work efficiently?

Will the fact that some of the PC's will be coming into the AS400 thru a
VPN
influence the simple logic of what I've planned.

Is there a "slicker'er" way of having the PC Java app talk to an AS400
pgm
and if so how would 190 processes times 2 know who is talking to who?
(not
using data queues that is)

I'm a Java newbie but there is an experience Java person working on the
PC
side. He's only seen pictures of ISeries boxes however.

Steve Moland
Access Paths Inc
12 Parmenter Rd Unit C4
Londonderry NH 03053
steve@xxxxxxxxxxx

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