Re: RPG Screen to URL Link

[richard@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Hello Paul, 

Not sure if you're looking for this as an option for a customer or as an 
extension to your product offerings. 

You could learn how to use the HLLAPI API's with CA/400 and roll your own 
program that screen scrapes and then launches the web link. 

If you are open to commercial options we have two products that could 
prove useful: 

1.) 5250 Integrator - This tool allows any area of an emulation screen to 
become an area that can be used to trigger web links, or any other program 
accessible via VBScript.  We wrapped up the HLLAPI functionality of the 
CA/400 emulator along with a back end VBScripting engine to give 
developers the ability to quickly enable any 5250 screen for access. No 
access to application source code is needed for this tool.

2.) iSeries Office Integrator - Contains CL commands that can be embedded 
into existing programs to be able to trigger word mail merges, URL's, etc 
from a function key or subfile option in any callable CL, RPG or COBOL 
program.  This tool DOES require that you have source code for your apps. 

Hope this helps. 

Regards,
Richard Schoen
RJS Software Systems Inc. 
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Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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message: 3
date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:34:52 -0700
from: "Paul Holm" <pholm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RPG Screen to URL Link

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Hi, 

Using a client access 5250 emulation screen and HOT SPOTS, we can have a 
URL
link be "clickable" to any web site (URL).  Is it possible to hide the URL
so it's not visible to end users but still clickable?

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. 

Thanks in advance. 

Thanks,  Paul 

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