Re: Simple request -- MIDRANGE-L

That'd be the RUNRMTCMD I mentioned. This is executed from a 400 app, which
I thought she was running, in which the client picks a spooled file and it
gets converted to Acrobat. _If_ this is running on the 400, then she can
use RUNRMTCMD to call Acrobat on the PC. (There's some stuff about SNA here
with regard to Client Access. But a standard TCP/IP rexecd can be had
cheap, I'd think.) Getting the pdf to the PC could involve FTP in some way,
I suppose, even running a script on the PC, again using RUNRMTCMD.

Stephanie, who's doing what to whom?   :=)

It has been possible for CA to be set up to execute a URL. maybe display
the PDF as a URL and click on it. Then Save as... by the user?

Here's a bit from the command description:

>RUNRMTCMD (Run Remote Command) Command Description
>Purpose
>The Run Remote Command (RUNRMTCMD) command, also known as AREXEC when an
>SNA address is specified for the remote location name, allows iSeries 400
>users to run a command on a remote system that is running the target
>portion of this function.
>The target portion of this function can be a rexecd (remote executing)
>daemon if you specify *IP for the address type, or an AREXECD (APPC remote
>executing) daemon when an SNA address is specified for the remote location
>name. If you want to run a command on a Client Access/400 client that
>supports this function, you will need to specify an SNA address for the
>remote location name.

At 02:34 PM 3/5/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I think what Stephane is looking for is for CA to act like a browser, and
>when
>asked to open a file, run the pc .exe associated with a file type. Internet
>Explorer
>and Netscape do that now, and if they are used to access the as400, in cgi I
>can
>specify a url on the IFS of the as400, they upon seeing it is a .pdf file,
>will use
>Adobe Reader to open the file. Unfortunately, CA "green screen" is a telnet
>app. Maybe there is an api in CA for this function?
>jim franz
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Vernon Hamberg" <vhamberg@attbi.com>
>To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 3:11 PM
>Subject: Re: Simple request
>
>
> > There's RUNRMTCMD, I think, that can execute something on the PC from the
> > 400. It's part of CA, if I remember, and you need to set up users and
> > passwords.
> >
> > One of many products out there is the stuff from RJS Software. They have
> > things that monitor AS/400 outq's and can convert and distribute the
> > reports as you specify. Try them at www.rjssoftware.com.
> >
> > At 03:16 PM 3/5/02 +0100, you wrote:
> > >This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> > >--
> > >[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >This is a simple request from one of our customer.
> > > From a pc we have a connection with as400 with client access .
> > >In our 5250 application user can select a spool and we convert him in
> > >.pdf
> > >format in /ifs.
> > >
> > >After we want return this file to the client.(in the user download
> > >directory), and open automatically.
> > >
> > >How can we do that ?
> > >
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >
> > >Stephane
> > >
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