Re: Simple request

[Stephane Leon <sleon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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

On the client side CA.
User select a spool in 5250  screen and .pdf file is automatically
downloaded on pc.

I think maybe if the client Shared is directory, we can cpytostmf to pc.
After runrmtcmd acrobat.

- We need usrid and pass.:-(
- Manage shared directories.:-(


--
Stephane

Le Mardi 5 mars 2002, à 10:24 , Vernon Hamberg a écrit :

> 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
>> > >
>> > >