RE: Web Page/Green Screen Intergration

If I understand correctly you want to open the IE/Browser on a user PC.
That means you need a client on a PC :-) 

First Option I would try:
You can have another thin client on PC may be even a .BAT file which can
open the browser with URL, for user.  Run PC Command from RPGLE or CL to
execute this batch file.  

Second Option I would try:
You can create a thin client using 5250 emulator Control (rumba does
provide one) use it in a web page for the user to go to green screen,
from there you can use the Rumba Scripting or may be java script to
control the flow of your web application.

I asked the same type of question is there a browser for AS/400?

Thanks


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lopez, Andrew
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 8:32 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Web Page/Green Screen Intergration

I've done the Google and Midrange mailing list search and can't seem to
find an answer:

Traditional green screen order entry application.   Users access through
Client Access emulation.

When user hits a configured product, we want to launch a URL on the
user's
PC, pointing to a web based application hosted in-house but not on the
iSeries.

Users configure the product in this web based application and when they
finish it updates the item master on the iSeries (this update handled by
ODBC) and passes back a part number to the order entry program.

GETURL wouldn't seem to be applicable, as the user needs to actively
configure the product on the web page.  IBM is telling us that RPGLE can
launch the URL, but that the program will not wait for a parameter to be
passed back.   Is there an elegant way to launch the browser and wait
for
a parameter to be sent back?  We're using stored procedures to go from
the
web based application to the iSeries and return results back to the web
based application.  In this case we want the opposite.