Re: Web Page/Green Screen Intergration

I believe you can work with data queues through various iSeries Access 
interfaces. There are ActiveX objects for working with data queues. There is an 
OLEDB provider (IBMDA400) that can work with data queues. So I think your web 
app should be able to send something to a data queue that the RPG program is 
waiting on - maybe?

HTH
Vern

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> Andrew, 
> 
> The 5250 application and Web pages are independent entities so getting 
> them "in sync" would be a challenge. If your intent is to prevent the 
> 5250 app from progressing until the web update is done, you could use a 
> data area or data queue that your 5250 app would edit against and 
> wouldn't proceed until a value was updated there. 
> 
> Perhaps there will be other folks who will have more clever 
> implementations. You could also do something a bit more sophisticated 
> but you'd have to be using an open source 5250 application like tn5250j 
> so you could customize the behavior of the 5250 emulator, again testing 
> for values updated/changed by your web application. 
> 
> Just a few thoughts. 
> 
> Pete Helgren 
> 
> 
> Lopez, Andrew wrote: 
> 
> >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. 
> > 
> > 
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