You say: " I may want to provide the ability for users to invoke a web search or validate fields, such as zip code, through a web service."
If that's what you want, and the server can access the internet, then you might be able to use Scott Klement's HTTPAPI (or one of the other similar utilities on the net) to access the web site or web service.
IBM has tooling to support web service calls from HLL applications.
None of this requires a PC at runtime.
-Eric DeLong
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry C. Adams
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 8:43 AM
To: Midrange-L
Subject: Dumb Terminal or Emulator
We still have a couple of dumb terminals sitting around and currently being
used, though most work is done with PCs running 5250 emulation.
I was wondering if there is any way to tell if a program is running on a
dumb terminal or an a PC. The reason for asking is that I may want to
provide the ability for users to invoke a web search or validate fields,
such as zip code, through a web service. Obviously, these functions would
crash and burn if run from a dumb terminal so I want to be able to check
before I allow such things.
I read the recent discussion on Interactive vs Non-Interactive but did not
see anything that addressed this specific condition (though I may have
scanned the entries too rapidly or casually).
Thanks.
Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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