Re: Strpccmd

[Terrence Enger <tenger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kiran,

If you are open to trying another emulator, you might look at tn5250.
The workstation emulation program in recent versions lets you use
STRPCCMD.  I have done this successfully with version 0.17.4 in linux.

Cheers,
Terry.

On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 14:01 -0700, Jeff Young wrote:
> Kiran,
> The reason it does not work in Mocha is that the Mocha product is just a TN5250 emulator.
> The IBM iSeries Access program is more than just a green screen TN5250 emulator.
> It has servers that allow other access between the i and the PC.
> The STRPCO command uses one of those servers to execute a command on the PC that is attached to the 5250 Emulator Session.
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> hth,
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> Jeff Young 
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> From: Kiran Kumar <kkumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 4:49:13 PM
> Subject: Strpccmd
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> We use the following stcpccmd to invoke a browser based application
> using Strpccmd in Firefox browser
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> CHGVAR VAR(&CMD) VALUE('%windir%\system32\cmd.exe + 
> /c start firefox' *BCAT &URL) 
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> The &URL we get as a parameter is the actual URL of the application. 
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> We use client access in production and mocha in development environment.
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> The above command executes well in Client Access, but not Mocha. We
> could not determine as why it does not works in mocha. We noticed that
> location of windows directory is different for some users. Due to this
> we do not give the absolute location of windows directory. Instead we
> use wild card character "%" to locate the windows directory. 
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