Re: trying to use EXEC with Zend

Kelly,

I think Larry was trying to get the output of a directory listing on the PC into his PHP script. Using STRPCCMD won't work for this for two reasons:

1) STRPCCMD doesn't send the output of the commands you run back to your program.

2) STRPCCMD works by sending a specially formatted screen to your 5250 emulator. The emulator sees the screen, and grabs the command off of it and runs it. Since the PHP script isn't running in a 5250 emulator, it can't possibly use STRPCCMD.

-SK

On 12/4/2014 3:31 PM, Kelly Cookson wrote:

In a CL program you can do the following:

STRPCO
MONMSG MSGID(CPF0000 CPD0000 CPC0000 IWS0000 IWS4010)

STRPCCMD PCCMD('rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler +
http://www.kellycookson.info/') PAUSE(*NO)
MONMSG MSGID(CPF0000 CPD0000 CPC0000 IWS0000)

This code will open the user's default browser to the URL given. You can use these commands to open other programs on the PC.

There may be problems with calling the CL from PHP:

I think you need a session of Access for Windows (Client Access) running on the PC. I suspect it is Access for Windows that actually starts other programs on the PC.

Even if you have a session of Access for Windows running on the PC, I don't know what the results would be of calling the CL program from PHP. The call to the CL program might have to originate from the session of Access for Windows.

Thanks,
Kelly