Re: 5250 horizontal scrolling (or not), doing browser window, etc.

GA,

I don't know about a DDS solution, but here's some ideas for the browser
question....

You can put a web address on a green screen, and let the user click on it.
Client Access (Express in my case) will recognize the web address and launch
it in the default browser. 

You could start off in green screen and let the user get into the application,
provide parameters, etc. Let the AS/400 generate some HTML, maybe with a path
unique to that user, and throw out something like:

Your screen is ready. Click to continue:
http://myas400/userpath/applicationpage/

It wouldn't be automatic, but works.

Or...

If you have STRPCO (I think) in the user's initial program (or application
startup), you can do a RUNRMTCMD to the user's machine with (without quotes):
"iexplore.exe http://myas400/userpath/applicationpage/"; that runs on the
user's computer.

I haven't done either of these in depth, but played around enough to see both
work.

HTH,
Loyd

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:25:11 -0700 (PDT), G Armour <garmour400m@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>I also threw out an idea to generate HTML to throw the data onto a
>browser, but the requirement would be that the user would be taken
>directly to the browser window after taking action on the green screen
>app.  
>
>There's another thing I remember seeing about 4 years ago that
>automagically created HTML (or was it XML) but it was a one-click and
>you're there - want to say that it was part of the OS or Client Access or
>a freeware download from somewhere.  Sorry for being really fuzzy on this.
> Anybody know?
>
>If we went with the idea of generating HTML from a green-screen app and
>somehow open up a browser window on the fly to display it, does anyone
>have experience and suggestions / advice on how to accomplish this?  i.e.,
>RUNRMTCMD, something else???

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