re: [5250]

Ron,
 
>> ...had you read prior postings to this group(not that i am
>> berating, mea maxima culpa)
 
I was referring to FAST/400 when I said "After all, if I'm not 'hacking' 
anything like some tools in the past, then am I breaking the rules?". I'm well 
aware of FAST/400 and the theory behind it. However, FAST/400 is both 'illegal' 
(at least as fas as IBM are concerned) and no longer a viable option (since IBM 
included essentially mandatory PTF's to stop it). Besides which, I can't really 
require all my customers to download someone elses software in addition to 
mine... :-)

However, the ability to forge pointers (to the QWS* programs) in an MI program 
can't be bypassed by a PTF (AFAIK) and might not be 'illegal' (although I'd not 
like to meet Big Blue's lawyers to find out!).

If the "WebFacing job" flag is accessible without the need to do anything 
'illegal' then even better - I'll use that. If not, I'll stick with the 
datastream approach for now, since it works fine.

Regards,

Rory