Re: Dumb Terminal or Emulator

One thing I don't understand about this is that code you write for a 5250 session does not run on the terminal whether it is a dumb terminal or a PC. If you want to go out to a web service, it isn't the terminal doing it, it is the RPG program. So that should still work regardless of the terminal type. Of course if you want to do a RUNRMTCMD or STRPCCMD, then you can simply monitor for a message in the CL program, as someone already said.

Mark Murphy
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To: "Midrange-L" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Jerry C. Adams"
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Date: 09/23/2011 09:46AM
Subject: Dumb Terminal or Emulator

We still have a couple of dumb terminals sitting around and currently being
used, though most work is done with PCs running 5250 emulation.

 

I was wondering if there is any way to tell if a program is running on a
dumb terminal or an a PC.  The reason for asking is that I may want to
provide the ability for users to invoke a web search or validate fields,
such as zip code, through a web service.  Obviously, these functions would
crash and burn if run from a dumb terminal so I want to be able to check
before I allow such things.

 

I read the recent discussion on Interactive vs Non-Interactive but did not
see anything that addressed this specific condition (though I may have
scanned the entries too rapidly or casually).

 

Thanks.

 

Jerry C. Adams

IBM i Programmer/Analyst

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