Re: view ifs image and specify viewer with strpccmd

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am missing something in the discussion.

Why not have the user to make a file association for that extension to 
the application he wishes to associate with that extension?





On 2/26/2013 1:39 PM, Richard Schoen wrote:
> Make a temp copy of the file with a .TIF extension and launch it with STRPCCMD.
>
> That's essentially what we have customers do with our iSeries Office Integrator product when they want to launch files with non-standard extensions.
>
> Copy file and then use the OFCRUNPC command to launch it.
>
> We have taken it a step further where the iSeries job can optionally stay locked up until the file is closed and then the temp file gets auto-cleaned up.
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen
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> message: 4
> date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:33:44 -0800 (PST)
> from: J Franz <franz400@xxxxxxx>
> subject: view ifs image and specify viewer with strpccmd
>
> I have in the past used STRPCCMD to view an image stored in?the IFS
> from a iSeries Access 5250 session, by using a http:// url and let the browser
> select the viewer based in doc suffix (like .pdf).
> However we have an issue where the doc name is "non-standard" like
> B01291AA.BID? (this is IBM Content Manager stuff)
> and need to tell the browser what viewer to use (it's tif or pdf)
> and need to view on pc with no Content Manager client.
> It is not an option to rename the image file.
> Is this possible? Most likely tif and want to use
> Win native fax viewer in STRPCCMD command.
> pdf's would use Adobe Reader.
> TIA
> Jim Franz?