RE: Emulating STRPCCMD

[Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rory, 

Vern already mentioned our iSeries Office Integrator product.  We can easily provide a plug compatible wrapper command for STRPCCMD if you are open to commercial solutions, but you mentioned that's not an option. 

Let us know if you can't find another way to resolve it and we can definitely help you out.

It all comes down to having a valid business need with an ROI attached to it or writing your own sockets code on the i and the PC.  Time and Effort or Dollars.  It's a tradeoff :-)

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message: 5
date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:12:20 -0800
from: Rory Hewitt <rory.hewitt@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Emulating STRPCCMD

Vern,

The thing is, I need to be able to get this to work exactly the same as STRPCCMD. Basically, I can't touch the program code, so I need to have a command called STRPCCMD (in a library higher than QSYS, obviously) which will do the *exact* same thing as STRPCCMD...

Commercial solutions are not an option, sadly.

Rory


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Rory
>
> <verndor-response>
> 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 </verndor-response>
>
> 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