RE: view ifs image and specify viewer with strpccmd

This poor soul is using content manager, a tiff file can be named .BID, .A26, .B9L, and any other combination of three letter / number combinations. He would have to register all 7,140 permutations (if I did my math correctly) on every PC in the network! Ouch!

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From: CRPence [mailto:CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 2:01 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: view ifs image and specify viewer with strpccmd

On 26 Feb 2013 08:33, J Franz wrote:

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 a 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.

The file-extension 'bid' can be /registered/ to be associated with a TIF viewer application, and that will impact what action is taken for a double-click on the file on that PC. That registration already happened on other PCs as part of their install of the CM feature, and the the association is with the CM viewer. And presumably there is no such issue for the http invocation via those PCs with the CM client installed, such that the default behavior for the browser naming that file is to launch the CM viewer.?

However that registration alone may not be sufficient to alter the behavior of the browser. In that case, the file-extension may be able to be registered additionally within the browser; again, to establish the association with the TIF viewer application. With FireFox for example, see "A New File Type" at:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/File_types_and_download_actions