Re: view ifs image and specify viewer with strpccmd

I know several have suggested a quick copy to a .tif name.
This is not hard to code, but we are having a concern for the performance.
This company has a large and continuous group of people viewing
images constantly. Yes - Content Manager is big & bulky, but it is
tightly integrated into many apps throughout the co. Our need is to get around an issue
for a separate other large group of users needing just
a simple view image from the 5250 session (and there is Citrix involved which
is causing the local versus remote sessions to act diff ).
My thought was to remove Content Manager from the equation, and use
just the native Win Fax Viewer via the STRPCCMD.
I appreciate all the suggestions and will test the "temp copy" tomorrow.
Jim Franz

----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Schoen" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 2:39 PM
Subject: RE: view ifs image and specify viewer with strpccmd

Make a temp copy of the file with a .TIF extension and launch it with STRPCCMD.

That's essentially what we have customers do with our iSeries Office Integrator product when they want to launch files with non-standard extensions.

Copy file and then use the OFCRUNPC command to launch it.

We have taken it a step further where the iSeries job can optionally stay locked up until the file is closed and then the temp file gets auto-cleaned up.

Regards,
Richard Schoen
RJS Software Systems Inc.
Where Information Meets Innovation
Document Management, Workflow, Report Delivery, Forms and Business Intelligence
Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Web Site: http://www.rjssoftware.com
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message: 4
date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:33:44 -0800 (PST)
from: J Franz <franz400@xxxxxxx>
subject: view ifs image and specify viewer with strpccmd

I have in the past used STRPCCMD to view an image stored in?the IFS
from a iSeries Access 5250 session, by using a http:// url and let the browser
select the viewer based in doc suffix (like .pdf).
However we have an issue where the doc name is "non-standard" like
B01291AA.BID? (this is IBM Content Manager stuff)
and need to tell the browser what viewer to use (it's tif or pdf)
and need to view on pc with no Content Manager client.
It is not an option to rename the image file.
Is this possible? Most likely tif and want to use
Win native fax viewer in STRPCCMD command.
pdf's would use Adobe Reader.
TIA
Jim Franz?




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