Re: SETATNPGM concept

On 5/4/07, Mark Mellish <Mark.Mellish@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

All

I'm looking for a way to launch a particular application from any point in
an existing suite of many hundreds of interactive screen programs. If I
can't put a blanket solution in place I will need to insert the relevant
calling code into most if not all of the hundreds of interactive programs.

The application itself (for background purposes) is a third party document
management (browser based) package that I will call passing search criteria
from the iSeries database.

My ideal solution would be to invoke a function similar to the SETATNPGM
command when a particular keyboard sequence is pressed (e.g. CTRL+F12). We
already use this command to transfer to a group job.

so the SETATNPGM route is not available to you? If it is you can have
the SETATNPGM command popup a menu that lets the user select option 1
to transfer group job and option 2. document management.

another way is to use system request 5 to SNDMSG a message to
user(*Requester). Where your user's message queue has a *break
handling program sitting on it. ( you do that when they sign on )

From the keyboard you type shift sysreq, then 5 msg('DocMgmt')

tousr(*requester) and press enter. The message arrives in the user's
message queue, the *break handling program starts to run, receives the
message and if the text is "DocMgmt', calls into the Document
management application.

If your users access the system thru client access display sessions,
you can setup a keyboard macro that would run when the press CTRL +
F12. That macro would auto type the entire system request key
sequence.

-Steve