Re: RPG OA ?

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

So you want a 5250 screen, that pops up and controls pictures delivered via
browser?

You'd be hard pressed to have the 5250 emulator hold control, simply due to
the way windows works.  For that matter, you need some way to start the
browser.  If strpccmd and runrmtcmd are out, then you'd need to build/buy
the basically same functionality.  RJS has thier "iSeries Office
Integrator" product. (
http://www.rjssoftware.com/Products/Catalog/iSeries-Office-Integrator/)

You might be able to meet this hold control requirement if you build your
client side app.  But now you've got to handle the comm between the client
& server yourself.  I suppose you could use RPG OA on the server, but you'd
be writing your own RPG OA handler to do the comm.  The only thing RPG OA
would give you in this scenario would be the use of RPG WRITE/EXFMT
op-codes instead RPG procedure calls. It's probably be easier to simply do
socket comm directly.

A better solution would be to get rid of the 5250 screen altogether.  There
are numerous products out there that make it easier for RPG programmers to
do web development.  Some use RPG OA, some don't.  ProfoundUI is one
product that comes to mind, it will use RPG OA if available.

Charles



On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:07 AM, <Dirk.Marien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have an application to be developed and we wonder if we can use RPG
> open access for this (other solutions are welcome too) :
>
> In a file we have URL's of pictures of parts (multiple documents per part
> possible). By pressing a function-key we'd like to show a picture, by
> pressing Enter the next picture, by pressing F12 the previous picture,
> .... . We'd like the iSeries screen to hold control; not the browser
> (users using this PC's do not have a pointing device and we only want them
> to use the function keys they are familiar with - i.e. the iSeries
> function keys). Strpccmd and runrmtcmd are not an option... . Can we use
> OA for this ? Are there other - maybe better - solutions ?
>
> Kr,
> Dirk.
>
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