Re: Emulating STRPCCMD

Rory

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If you are open to a commercial offering, we have the Office Integrator product that can be used to run commands on a PC from the command line of the i. An app on the PC has to be run to receive the requests - there is an enhancement that will work slightly differently, on its way pretty soon.

Call 888.rjs.soft toll-free or email me or Richard, who is also on these lists - or email sales.rjssoftware.com
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Vern

On 12/10/2012 5:19 PM, Rory Hewitt wrote:

All,

Does anyone know of a way that I can emulate the behavior of STRPCCMD?

I know that STRPCCMD sends a 'hidden' screen to the emulator that contains
some control characters, followed by the actual command to be run, and the
emulator then executes that command.

I have access to the 5250 data-stream but my 'emulator' (actually a
data-stream parser which displays the screen in the browser) is not able to
run STRPCCMD. I would like to be able to 'recognize' the hidden screen
(easy) and then invoke some processing to execute the same functionality as
is executed by STRPCCMD. Is this possible, perhaps using a socket to run a
command on the PC?

I've posted this in the RPG400-l list as the software will most likely be
written using RPG...

Thanks,

Rory