RE: Can my VB program execute an AS/400 program?

You could start the REXEC daemon on the 400 and call Windoze REXEC from your
VB program. You don't get back parameters but you do get the output from the
command.

I just tried this quickly using Win2K. Annoyingly, its REXEC client doesn't
have a parm for password, and it also doesn't seem to read the pwd from
stdin, so a simple redirection of a password file won't work. Not sure how
to get around that. Perhaps there is a VB control for REXEC that you can get
somewhere, or maybe somebody knows a trick for Windoze REXEC.

-Marty

- -----Original Message-----
From: Schenck, Don [mailto:Don.Schenck@pfizer.com]
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 12:06 PM
To: 'midrange-L@midrange.com'
Subject: Can my VB program execute an AS/400 program?


I would like to be able to run an AS/400 program from my VB program.

Is there a way to do that? MUST I have Client Access?

Also; can I receive any return parameters or messages?

I used to do this all the time using PC Support/400 ... YEARS ago.
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