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

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I never used horizontal scrolling on 5250 but I have used "View 1, View 2,
and View 3" to present more data than can be shown at one time.  I round
robined the views with an F key.   Users liked that.

Visual Age RPG has been yours for free for quite a while now, and was only
$300 before that.  It gives you normal Windows look & feel. http://www
martinvt.com/Visual_Age_RPG/visual_age_rpg.html has a few screen shots. I
happen to believe that VARPG is the right choice for lots and lots of shops,
but RPG shops are saying "No"

STRPCO might be an easier way to open the browser from a green screen.  
 
 
 
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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: Thursday, October 09, 2003 4:29:56 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: 5250 horizontal scrolling (or not), doing browser window, etc.
 
Just so I can be sure I haven't missed some obscure DDS function... I had
a question posed to me today asking if it were possible to have a 5250
green screen with a horizontal scroll bar. Without even thinking about it
for two seconds, I said no.
 
Then I remembered SFLEND(*SCRBAR) or somesuch, but I realize that this is
just a gussied-up vertical scroll bar for a subfile. So, before I burn
any more brain cells on this...
 
And then I wondered about DSM, but I've never used that before, so if
anyone has experience with that, please chime in.
 
Don't know if the user will be using Client Access or some other emulator,
but for now I'm assuming Client Access.
 
I have suggested they think about doing a Visual RPG app, since we have a
license for that now that we're on v5r2 (doesn't that come with WebSphere
Development ToolSet?), and I gotta believe we could fashion a horizontal
scroll bar with that.
 
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???
 
TIA, GA