Re: RPG Screen to URL Link

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is an alias file a choice?  Duplicate what  www.tinyurl.com does?

Paul Holm wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.  We don't want to prereq Ops Navigator so STRPCCMD
> isn't an option.  Most of our developers are not familar with web
> programming so we want to allow them to use their traditional RPG tools and
> then call our web based URLs which would handle generic lookups / CRUD apps,
> with GUI.  We are passing on the URL, SQL statements that define the
> intended user operation.  The web app takes the sql and executes fine  but
> the problem still is the green screen URL taking up so much room.
>
> I'll keep investigating options.  Thanks,  Paul
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> "Scott Klement" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> message news:20060719162804.I16578@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > The goal is to enable RPG / 5250 screen to be able to link to
> complementary
> > > web applications.  This is possible today by simply putting a URL like:
> > > http://CNN.COM on a emulator screen (with URL links enabled
> > > Edit-Preferences-URL) but again the problem is that URLs can become very
> > > long and not friendly to end users.
> > A few thoughts:
> >
> > a) If you made this a Web application (which can be done with RPG) you
> > could actually use HTML and use nromal HTML links to accomplish your goal.
> >
> > b) If you want to stay with green screen, you could have a function key
> > "F8 = Open Link" or something like that.  When the user hits F8, your RPG
> > program could use STRPCCMD to open the link.  (OR could call a CL program
> > that runs STRPCCMD)
> >
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