Re: Web Page/Green Screen Integration

> ....from Pete....
> 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.

> ....from Vern....
> 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?

The data queue would certainly leverage the knowledge we already have:  call
a CL that creates a data queue, launches browser passing the data queue,
monitors for reply via the data queue, reads data queue, cleans up after
itself by deleting the data queue.  

The only part we're not familiar with is causing the PC to launch a web
browser.

We'd probably have to come up with a good way of breaking into hung CL's for
those cases where a user closes the browser, or we simply do not receive a
reply back to the data queue.  A pain, but manageable. 

Thanks for the suggestions.