Re: Invoking RPG program from a web page

["Jim Franz" <jfranz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

net.data could also do this easily. see the net.data form on ibm
site or www.ignite400.com fo how-to's.

Subject: Re: Invoking RPG program from a web page


>
> >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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