Re: Questions on "Calling PC Commands from RPG" article -- MIDRANGE-L

No. I'm still interested. I've brought up the iSeries Access for Windows
Properties (V5R2M0 SI16915). There is a tab for Incoming Remote Command;
there are three options for command mode: Normal, New console, Detached. New
console was the selected option when I brought it up. There are four
security options checkboxes: Run as system, Cache security, Allow generic
security, Generic security runs command as logged-on user. In my search
yesterday, I came across something that described this tab in totally
different terms, but I think it was for Client Access Express.

I'm not familiar with those dialogs. Here's what I do in Windows XP(unfortunately, Microsoft seems to change this in every version of Windows-- part of their ongoing campaign to make me hate them.)


a) Click:  Start -> Control Panel

b) I'm in the "Category View" (as opposed to the "Classic View")

c) Click "Performance and Maintenance"

d) Click "Administrative Tools"

e) Double-click "Services"

f) Scroll down til you find "iSeries Access for Windows Remote Command",Right-click and hit properties.

g) In the "Log On" tab, choose "Local System Account" and check "Allowservice to interact with desktop" (if you don't check that box, thingswill lock up when you try to run them, in my experience)


h) Click Apply

i) Go back to the "General" tab and change the Startup Type to "Automatic"so that it'll start whenever you boot the PC.


j) Click "Start" to start it now.

k) Click OK to exit.

l) Close any control panel windows.

m) Now from the iSeries, I issue the following command:

RUNRMTCMD CMD('start mailto:someguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx')
          RMTLOCNAME(my-windows-pc.example.com *IP)
          RMTUSER(my-windows-user-id)
          RMTPWD(my-windows-password)

n) As I was writing these steps, I tried each one, and it worked :)

That assumes that you're using the iSeries Access version of incomingremote command, obviously. For other versions, you'll need to the followthe instructions provided with the software, since I don't have it infront of me.