Web link in a 5250 screen - REVISITED

["Carl Galgano" <cgalgano2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I found the thread below regarding executing a web link from a green screen.
I do not use Client Access and the client that I am talking to uses
Mochasoft as their emulator.
Anyone know of a more generic way to have a web link on a page.  What I
would like to be able to do is have a screen of product specs, and have a
link to view or download a pdf file that is assoicated with the data on the
green screen.  Click on the link and the system would understand it is a PDF
and fire up Adobe Acrobat reader and show the PDF document.

Anyone have any new info.


Carl Galgano


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If your 5250 sessions are Client Access sessions, click on
Edit...Preferences...Hot Spots and endable 3-D buttons for url's. You can
also make F-keys clickable.

Rick Nardone wrote: 
with PC Organizer started(strpco) you can, from command line, cl program,
rpg with qcmdexc, issue command

strpccmd 'start http://www.domain.com/yada/yada.html'


we use this function here to autolaunch archived pdfs of customer bills
driven from a green screen app. The command below launches the FILE, which
by default uses the associated app for the type *.pdf(adobe reader)

strpccmd 'start \\servername\YYYYMM\customernumber.pdf'








message: 4
date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:43:08 -0800 (PST)
from: G Armour <garmour400m@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Click on an internet link from a 5250 screen


I was pretty sure I've seen this before, but darned if I can find it in
the archives or in the documentation.


Is there a way to put a clickable browser link on a 5250 screen.  In other
words, say my 5250 display application shows "http://www.ibm.com";;, is it
possible for the user to click on that and have the browser open up
automatically and go to that web site?

TIA, GA