Re: Web Page/Green Screen Integration

["Lopez, Andrew" <alopez@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> from: Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: Web Page/Green Screen Intergration
> 
> > When user hits a configured product, we want to launch a URL on the
user's
> > PC, pointing to a web based application hosted in-house but not on the
> > iSeries.
> 
> You can do that with
> 
>      STRPCO
>      STRPCCMD CMD('start http://www.example.com')
> 
> In my opinion, it's really awkward.  But, I'll open a browser window on 
> the PC that points to the site...

We just tested that and it works great, especially with the PAUSE(*NO)
option so the user doesn't get a DOS window with "Press any key to
continue...".

Put together with a data queue, the only problem now will be convincing the
configurator vendor to accept another parameter on the URL string (for the
data queue).