RE: Calling Report and Viewing Output from a PC

Joe:
We have a commercial product that does this.  You can use some API's to
create HTML versions of your spool files automatically on the IFS or any
other server on your network.  They the user can open up Windows explorer
and click on the report and there it is in a browser window.
One of our clients had us write some net.data pages to make the interface a
bit more fancy and added an icon to all of their user's desktop, they call
it "the workbench", a nice browser based tool, and all the data comes from
the AS400.
Email me or call me off line if you'd like to discuss.
CJG


Carl J. Galgano
EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
540 Powder Springs Street, Suite C19
Marietta, GA  30064
(770) 422-2995 - voice
(419) 730-8212 - fax
mailto:cgalgano@ediconsulting.com
http://www.ediconsulting.com
AS400 EDI, Networking, E-Commerce and Communications Consulting and
Implementation

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Joe Giusto
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 11:33 AM
> To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
> Subject: Calling Report and Viewing Output from a PC
>
>
> We have recently eliminated an operator position, and I have now
> been asked
> to take some of the reports and allow the users to view them on the PC by
> clicking on an Icon on the windows desktop.
> They do not want to have to bring up a Client Access session and log on to
> run these reports.
>
> I have started playing with FTP 's Quote RCMD and have had mixed results.
> I am able to get a program to run that generates the spooled file, then I
> get stuck on how to get it back to the PC user to be viewed on screen.
>
> I would appreciate and suggestions from the list to help me out with ideas
> on how to approach this.
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> Joe Giusto II
> Patuxent Publishing Company
> 10750 Little Patuxent Parkway
> Columbia, MD 21044
> mailto:JGiusto@patuxent.com <mailto:jgiusto@patuxent.com>
> http://www.lifegoeson.com <http://lifegoeson.com>
>
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