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Re: [EXTERNAL] Has anyone created a PDF and then immediately displayed it on the screen?

I know but the OP didn't seem to have grasped that so I tried to spell it out a bit more.

Sure they should move to a modern interface - but frankly these days I would not start with CGIDEV2 - way too much work to convert your existing code and no easy way to integrate your current green screen into the same look/feel. Open Access based tools like this from Profound, Rocket, and others have that capability. So does CNX's Valence and with tools like Nitro it is really easy to build new stuff. Just about all of the current crop of tools are reasonably priced and offer huge bang for the buck.


Jon Paris

On Jul 4, 2021, at 11:44 AM, Raul Alberto Jager Weiler <raul.jager@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This is almost the same as I suggested, the same steps, but instead of
starting in the green screen, move the whole process to the web.

On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 4:11 PM Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Basically all you need the RPG to do is:

a) Create the pdf in a folder called (say) PDFs

b) Build a string containing the required link - If you assume that Apache
maps https://myserver/PDFsHere/ to the PDF folder then the string would
be https://myserver/PDFsHere/ + the unique pdf name.

c) Display that link on the green green.

d) User selects the link on the green screen. Needless to say this won't
work on a real 5250 <grin>

You can configure Apache it so that it needs a regular user Id and pw if
you need to.


Jon Paris



On Jul 2, 2021, at 3:55 PM, Alan Shore via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Okay - Im going to play dumb here (Unfortunately - way too easy for me
just lately)
Could you expand on what you wrote with some sort of examples
You wrote
Easy: Call your program from a web browser and display the resulting PDF

Sorry - for those of us not sure what you are talking about - not so easy

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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Has anyone created a PDF and then immediately
displayed it on the screen?

Easy: Call your program from a web browser and display the resulting PDF
Forget the 5250 emulator for this.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 3:50 PM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:
rob@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

It's ok to have shares on the IBM i, if done right.
First rule, never share the root.
If the application will work if the share is read only, then make it
read
only.
Set the authority correctly on the directory the share is built over.

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I have created PDF files in the IFS and then used ACS to display the
PDF.
All is good.
What I do is create the spool file and CPYSPLF to a *STMF file in the
IFS.
So far so good.

Problem: for security reasons, the staff in the plant are not given
access
to ACS other than the 5250 emulation. I need to be able to get the PDF
to
automagically open the PDF and display it on the screen for the user to
work with.
I have not found a way to do this.
I tried the STRPCCMD with the dos command START but that command will
only
run a command on the PC. It will not run against the IFS unless I share
the
folder on the IFS and run the START against the IFS share. For security
reasons, we do not want to share the IFS folder. We have up to 200 users
and the security team are concerned about the security of the IFS.

Has anyone found a solution to this problem I have?

TIA, Darryl Freinkel.
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