Re: Invoking RPG program from a web page

[Jon.Paris@xxxxxx]

>i want to show a sales inquiry on our intranet site.
>is there any way to extract the out put of that
>inquiry rpg program to the web page?

You don't say if this inquiry program is a printed report or if it
currently appears on a 5250.

If a printed report, there are three main options I can think of:

1) Use a utility that converts the spool output to a PDF file and retrieve
that in the browser (Joe Pluta has one at www.zappie.net)

2) Convert the program to output to the browser.  Personally I would use
IBM's CCGIDEV2 library (from www.easy400.ibm.it) to simplify the task or
you could buy Brad Stone's book and use the techniques and subprocedures
there to achieve the task.

3) This is a variant on 2 - and the fastest way to do it if the report is
short and uses O-spec output.  You can change the printer to a SPECIAL file
and use a generic special file handler to route the report to a browser.  I
am covering this topic in an upcoming magazine article but if you e-mail me
off-list (I won't respond to requests on the list) I will happily send you
a savefile containing some basic demonstration programs.

Jon Paris - Jon.Paris@hal.it

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